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Re: TODO
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Albert Chin |
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Re: TODO |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:39:03 -0600 |
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:43:48PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 14:24 +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>
> > 6. Absorb the functionality of the aberration called pkg-config. Libtool
> > already has all the information it needs, we just need to teach it (or
> > maybe a subsidiary script) to spit out link flags after poking around
> > in a dependency chain of .la files.
>
> There's actually a couple of things pkg-config does that Libtool doesn't
> currently do. pkg-config's main job can be summed up simply as enabling
> parallel-installed -dev packages.
What about non-libtool libraries wanting to benefit from pkg-config?
This will require them to spit out .la files rather than .pc files.
> Principally it provides the right -L and -l flags to link libraries, we
> can get this from Libtool. An an improvement would then be only
> providing the dependency -l flags on platforms that need it, and not on
> Linux for example.
Ick. Libtool is about portably building/using libraries. Why can't we
leave it at that?
--
albert chin (address@hidden)
- Re: TODO, (continued)
- Re: TODO, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/11/10
- Re: TODO, Scott James Remnant, 2004/11/10
- Re: TODO, Ralf Wildenhues, 2004/11/10
- Re: TODO, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/11/10
- Re: TODO, Ralf Wildenhues, 2004/11/10
Re: TODO, Scott James Remnant, 2004/11/10
Re: TODO, Scott James Remnant, 2004/11/10
Re: TODO,
Albert Chin <=
Re: TODO, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/11/12
Re: TODO, Albert Chin, 2004/11/12
Re: TODO, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/11/12
Re: TODO, Jacob Meuser, 2004/11/12
Re: TODO, Ralf Corsepius, 2004/11/12
Re: TODO, Jacob Meuser, 2004/11/13
Re: TODO, Ralf Corsepius, 2004/11/13
Re: TODO, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/11/13
Re: TODO, Jacob Meuser, 2004/11/13
Re: TODO, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/11/13