On 07/03/13 05:41, Marc Lehmann wrote: > If "you" are gentoo and you add patches like that, potentially breaking > compatibility with other distributions and upstream, then you are simply > doing it wrong.
Feel free to discuss about it here https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411847 > Note that fedora plans to remeove the pkg-config file because it doesn't > really improve anything (and they have an ethical upstream policy). You seem to picture Gentoo as some sort of evil entity. I just checked why it had been patched in (importing Fedora patch mind you) and it was because libverto requires it. Would be nice if you provide a pkg-config since it makes the life of those having to check for libraries much easier. At least for autotools overriding the values is _MUCH_ simpler thanks to the pkg-config macros providing FOO_CFLAGS and FOO_LIBS overrides, if you need to. In order to get the same features I had to rely on non-standard AX_CHECK_LIBRARY and luckily I'm not using alternative build systems. So for the normal autotool situation you spare lines in your configure, have a clear and clean way to override the library and headers paths with the right granularity and if you have a decent cross environment and a decent pkg-config your life gets quite simpler. As author of softwares using libev I'd be much happier to have a pkg-config file available. lu PS: I'm not involved in maintaining the libev ebuild. _______________________________________________ libev mailing list libev@lists.schmorp.de http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libev
