Hi Eric,
On Saturday 21 April 2001 6:12 pm, Eric Lemings wrote:
> Because of a growing number of config scripts for packages in GNOME 1.2
> (e.g. glib-config, xml-config, orbit-config. etc), development of GNOME
> 2.0 spawned a separate tool called pkg-config that allows all packages
> to use one tool rather than several different scripts to query compile
> flags, link flags, and other configuration data.
>
> The functionality of pkg-config seems to me to have a lot of overlap
> with the goals of libtool. I was wondering if anyone had considered
> adding an eighth mode to libtool that just queries the installed
> library for the same information that pkg-config provides.
Yes, I have been thinking about this. Although I was planning on writing a
macro for autoconf-2.50 which would help generate the foo-config scripts. I
think your idea is a much better approach, and I'll add it to the TODO list
presently. Thanks.
> Since most packages that use pkg-config also use libtool, I think this
> would be a good way to reduce maintainer and developer dependencies.
Most definitely. Do you think there is any chance of rustling up some
support for sending in a patch to get the ball rolling?
Cheers,
Gary.
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