On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> wrote: >> >> These are using proprietary vendor-specific #pragmas. It's pretty >> > >> > True, but IMO the concept seems pretty useful. >> > >> > Why do you think it's horrible? It appears to work well. >> > >> >> horrible, not to mention fragile--if any header fails to include the >> >> correct bits of magic, it all falls apart. If they had spent just >> >> a fraction of the time implementing that to support pkg-config, we >> >> wouldn't have a problem. >> > >> > g++ and MSVC don't use pkg-config (AFAIK). >> > So the complexity is pushed down instead of up.
> Yes? I didn't really have anything further to add to the discussion, > unless I've missed something. Were you wanting something specific? I was wondering why you considered the auto linking stuff to be so horrible. IMO the best solution would be to get auto link support into GCC too. > The only thing I'm lacking is the expertise to integrate it with > upstream's build system, bjam. If you (or anyone else) has any > understanding of it, that would be most helpful. I don't have any bjam experience. Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinjexyxqxdgxyyng5q02eigxs_oo4n8ozmao...@mail.gmail.com
