On 29/11/12 14:16, hasufell wrote: > > again, even if there are corner cases which cannot be dealt with in a > different way... > > having an eclass function like the mentioned one is bad, cause it > suggests that this is a way to fix things. It's not. Application > developers running gentoo might think "oh great, there is a pkgconfig > file for this, so I can use it in my Makefile". Then a Fedora packager > comes across this package and realizes a compile failure until he > notices the build system is calling for a pkgconfig file that cannot be > found anywhere. So he contacts this developer and asks which distro he > is using.
Standard autotools based packages always use --with-blas= so it is pretty simple for us to make it to --with-blas="$(pkg-config --libs blas)" same thing goes for cmake and -DBLAS_LIBRARIES="$(pkg-config --libs blas)" This game has been played since ever, because blas/lapack are bundled in more then 80% of the packages using it. So we are used to patch them to use system libs. So why not making our lives easier by having a pkg-config option? justin
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