On 2017-07-28 18:07, Francisco Ares wrote: > Recently I tried to build one of my programs in an Ubuntu distro, and > it didn't build at all, messing library and include files names and > locations. > > How do real developers manage this? And why this difference happens, > in the first place? Why mangle uper/lower case characters in library > file names? > > I guess that's why "autoconf" "configure" et al exists... But never > tried to learn about them, so perhaps it's time now?
No, it's why pkg-config(1) et al exists. For the kind of problems you mention, you should be able to use pkg-config without autotools. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. Do obvious transformation on domain to reply privately _only_ on Usenet.
