On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:43:48PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 14:24 +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > > 6. Absorb the functionality of the aberration called pkg-config. Libtool > > already has all the information it needs, we just need to teach it (or > > maybe a subsidiary script) to spit out link flags after poking around > > in a dependency chain of .la files. > > There's actually a couple of things pkg-config does that Libtool doesn't > currently do. pkg-config's main job can be summed up simply as enabling > parallel-installed -dev packages.
What about non-libtool libraries wanting to benefit from pkg-config? This will require them to spit out .la files rather than .pc files. > Principally it provides the right -L and -l flags to link libraries, we > can get this from Libtool. An an improvement would then be only > providing the dependency -l flags on platforms that need it, and not on > Linux for example. Ick. Libtool is about portably building/using libraries. Why can't we leave it at that? -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool