James Carlson wrote:

> The output of pkgconfig itself isn't private; it's used by other
> software to find this library.
> 
> The file that is contributed by this library to make pkgconfig work is
> private.  Nothing (other than pkgconfig itself) should be reaching
> around into /usr/lib/pkgconfig directly.

PSARC 2004/049 [ openssl.pc for pkg-config ] established precedent for 
pkg-config *.pc files as follows:

<QUOTE>
The existance of the openssl.pc file is Stable, the contents are
Unstable, the contents reference stuff declared as External in
PSARC/2003/500.
/QUOTE>

--Stefan

-- 
Stefan Teleman
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM


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