Re: pkg-config

From: SM <sm_at_resistor.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:55:23 -0700

Hi Murray,
At 12:25 08-10-2009, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>Some of Daniel's suggestions presuppose the use of pkg-config. For
>those of you who may not know (I didn't until just now!), pkg-config
>is a mechanism for registering the locations of installed include
>files and libraries that can later be retrieved by build mechanisms
>like autoconf.

[snip]

>It looks like modern free UNIXes all come with pkg-config installed,
>or if not, then some common packages already install them as
>dependencies, so really this conversation is just a matter of being
>sensitive to vendor UNIXes like Solaris or other legacy systems.

I hope that we will be sensitive to the non-Linux and legacy
systems. This automated stuff is all good until things break. And
then it can be hell. I prefer to be able to tweak the locations in such cases.

Regards,
-sm
Received on Fri Oct 16 2009 - 15:06:35 PST

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