Hi all,
I've seen the edges of a few flamewars associated with autoconf/configure
style scripts, and I'm wondering if anyone can point me to (or provide me
with) arguments covering the following points:
Given a 3rd-party library A, which includes header files, and a 3rd-party
program B, which uses headers from A, what is the canonical way for B to
discover the location of A?
Some programs seem to use macro files which they install in
/usr/share/aclocal. Some programs supply 'config' programs
({gtk,gimp,imlib}-config) which report header and link flags. Some
programs rely on a standard location (either /usr[/local]/include or
/usr[/local]/include/<packagename>).
And I think I've seen people being disparaging of each of these methods..
Many debian programs provide /usr/share/aclocal files... but I've seen
people be fairly rude about the autoconf/automake/aclocal package too...
Any pointers to appropriate FMs appreciated..
Jules
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