Am Sonntag, den 02.11.2008, 09:10 +0100 schrieb Reinhard Tartler: > [...] > That indicates that Requires.private is indeed used on purpose. [1] > indicates that you are right, and the -dev packages are indeed missing > depedencies. However I'd love to see some more authoritative > documentation on that topic, because the difference between Libs.private > and Requires.private is still very unclear to me. > > [1] http://osdir.com/ml/freedesktop.xorg.modular/2006-04/msg00017.html
No idea about pkg-config documentation... it's one of the most used but worst documented pieces of software :) Requires.private corresponds to Requires, i.e. it contains references to required pkg-config files (with optional versions, ...) but the LIBS of them will only be used for static linking. Libs.private is the same for Libs, i.e. it contains linker flags (-lfoobar -L/usr/include/blingblong) that will only be used for static linking. If something is in Requires.private -dev packages _must_ depend on it, if it's in Libs.private -dev packages only need to depend on it if they ship static libraries (AFAIK). If you forget something from Requires.private pkg-config --cflags $thing will fail and complain about stuff from Requires.private missing.
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