If I recall correctly, the feeling was that packagers wanted smaller distributions and/or don't want the C++ code. This is why --enable-cpp-progs by default is disabled. One of the major proponents of this point of view<http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2007/11/17/a-bunch-of-silly-c-libraries>is Flameeyes.
But if it is enabled yes, I guess it would be a bug if the pkgconfig files are not installed. If you could work up a patch to fix this, that'd be fantastic. Thanks. While on the topic of distributions and changes, I should note that the git repository now has work done by Nicolas Boullis to reduce fture ABI breakage and corrects an API misfeature. However should I have misrepresented things (and it is not uncommon for me to get things wrong), I hope others will speak up and correct me. 2009/8/6 Stanislav Brabec <[email protected]> > Hallo. > > I am just packaging libcdio-0.81 and found and interesting problem > there: > > Without --enable-cpp-progs, C++ libraries are built, but C++ library > pkgconfig files are not installed. I guess it is not the intended > behavior. > > I don't have a patch for it, but I can look into this problem. It seems, > that --enable-cpp-progs is by default disabled. > > -- > Best Regards / S pozdravem, > > Stanislav Brabec > software developer > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: [email protected] > Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 966, +49 911 740538747 > 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 > Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ > >
