On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM Jacob Champion <jacob.champ...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > > That would be in Cflags.private. > > Yes.
The FAQ you cite says > In either case, pkg-config will output the [private dependency's] compiler > flags when --static is used or not. which seems awfully counterproductive, and was apparently controversial when it was proposed in 2005 [1, 2]. This is why --libs works and --cflags doesn't. Now that pkg-config's successor supports Cflags.private, I wonder if there's room to fix these mutually-conflicting use cases... --Jacob [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=340904#10 [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322240
