The real problem here is when you have complex frameworks like gtk. pkg-config basically will link you against gdk, gdk-pixbuf, gtk and a lot of other stuff. But in practice, not every application need to link against all of them.
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:11 PM Rex Dieter <rdie...@math.unl.edu> wrote: > Dominique Martinet wrote: > > > In practice, `pkg-config --cflags foo` will only fetch cflags for > > dependencies listed in Requires, not Requires.private > > pkg-config --cflags foo > fetches cflags of Requires.private items in foo.pc for me. > > I've patched many packages to use that feature, and haven't noticed any > breakage (so far). > > -- Rex > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L3Y3PPOF33WNTZBGO64YKJARAQSC3O7Q/ > -- -Igor Gnatenko
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