"Jeroen T. Vermeulen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, July 27, 2006 21:54, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> However, there are some discrepancies between the linker flags for the >> two. pqxx-config can't support static linking properly and support >> correct shared library dependencies, whereas this is possible with >> pkg-config (but not currently done for either--it needs the static >> dependencies of libpq and libpqxx specifying). > > Probably a silly question (my excuse being that I don't do much of the > packaging myself), but mightn't pqxx-config still be of interest to users > who don't have pkg-config?
Yes. However, pkg-config has been around for quite a few years now, and its use is now quite common. All the current Linux and BSD distributions have provided it for several years, and it's also available on Windows for Cygwin and MinGW, and is probably also available native. It would be possible to add some sort of fallback behaviour if pkg-config was not found. However, library -config scripts have been found problematic due to the linking issues they cause. pkg-config, while not perfect, does solve those problems by understanding library dependencies and also direct and indirect dependencies for dynamic and static linking. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please sign and encrypt your mail.
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