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 _______________________________________________ Libpqxx-general mailing list [email protected] http://gborg.postgresql.org/mailman/listinfo/libpqxx-general
