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notation, without getting builddir pathnames ever mentioned in .la |
notation, without getting builddir pathnames ever mentioned in .la |
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files that get installed. |
files that get installed. |
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* Eric Lemings <elemings@cyberia.lemings.com> writes: |
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Because of a growing number of config scripts for packages in GNOME 1.2 |
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(e.g. glib-config, xml-config, orbit-config. etc), development of GNOME |
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2.0 spawned a separate tool called pkg-config that allows all packages |
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to use one tool rather than several different scripts to query compile |
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flags, link flags, and other configuration data. |
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The functionality of pkg-config seems to me to have a lot of overlap |
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with the goals of libtool. I was wondering if anyone had considered |
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adding an eighth mode to libtool that just queries the installed |
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library for the same information that pkg-config provides. Since |
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most packages that use pkg-config also use libtool, I think this |
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In the future: |
In the future: |
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