On Fri, July 28, 2006 15:13, Roger Leigh wrote:

> 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.

Fair enough; have to draw the line somewhere when it comes to backwards
compatibility.  Your patch is in, with thanks.


Jeroen


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