2010/2/26 Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org>: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 13:38:59 -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: >> > nouveau_drmif.h includes xf86drm.h. >> >> If it's a source level dependency it should be a regular Requires: in >> the .pc. Requires.private: is only for private libraries you link to >> but don't expose their API in your header files. The idea is (AFAIK) >> that you can ask pkg-config to list all libraries to link to for >> static linking, in which case pkg-config needs a way to find all >> needed libraries. It even looks like Requires.private has been >> obsoleted by Libs.private in recent pkg-config. >> > That's not what the pkg-config maintainer says... > > http://err.no/personal/blog/2008/Mar/25 > > Using Requires.private lets us get the necessary cflags, but avoids > linking to the library if not using --static.
Oh, I see. Well it sounds like at some point Requires.private did what I thought it did. Thanks for the pointer. Kristian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
