>What is needed is a "database" which acts as a registry of installed >packages. This would be updatable by 'make install' as well as binary >packaging tools.
all of GNOME is now using pkg-config for this purpose. > A tool would be provided to formulate the optimum >-I, -L, and -llibs options required to build using a set of libraries. pkg-config doesn't do that. its an almost impossible task unless you rely on the package authors to be reasonable and sensible; if you do that, then you don't need to do this anyway. >The database would need to be distributable across multiple prefixes >in order to handle the case where libraries are provided by the >system, installed to a common local directory, and installed in a >private directory. pkg-config not only handles this, but even handles using packages that are not yet even installed (merely built). --p _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
