Czuczy Gergely wrote: > pkg-config is a relatively new method, but most packages > (like gtk, silc's debian package, sqlite, alsa, atk, fontconfig, > freetype2, gdk-*, glib, gthread, libexslt, libpng, openssl, pango, > sigc++, xft, etc) support it,
That sounds very GNOME-biased, and the list on my machine supports that. So it's far from universal. > because it's prefferd, doesn't have > non-standard behaviour(like php-config, doesn't have --cflags, it has > --includes instead). It depends on what you define as standard. pkg-config doesn't have a --cppflags option, only --cflags, so I'm already wondering how one can write correct makefiles with it. > there are hundred millions of configure script that cannot > decide how to get postgres' cflags and libs by themselves. That's nonsense. pg_config is successfully used to interface to PostgreSQL libraries. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
