On 7/3/06, Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Ok, I guess your autoconf script could guess that without being too ugly.]
and pkg-config --libs OpenEXR yields:
-lIlmImf -lImath -lHalf -lIex -lz
[Yuck... even when using shared libraries, library dependencies don't
seem to give -lImath,
* Andreas Metzler
| I think it would not be nice if funky-license packageX suddenly had a
| indirect build-depency on GPL software, simply because it is using the
| standard autoconf test.
Like.. gcc which is, more or less, the only compiler used for free
software, be it BSD-, GPL or otherwise
Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's two seperate issues here. Firstly, using pkg-config to find
libraries. Autoconf solves this nicely already. Maybe in the future
autoconf can use pkg-config, but pkg-config is not widespread enough
to really do that yet. No dependancy
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Andreas Metzler said:
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
[making foo-config a wrapper around pkg-config]
If you started using pkg-config you'd have introduced a
build dependancy on a GPL'd program in a BSD licenced package, not
On 7/1/06, Vincent Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:42:12PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
It is also used to compile contrib modules that are included in the
distribution. If you started using pkg-config you'd have introduced a
build dependancy on a GPL'd program
* Mike Hommey
| On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:38:56PM +0200, Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| Hello,
| currently libgnutls-config --libs' output looks like this,
| -L/usr/lib -lgnutls -L/usr/lib -ltasn1 -lgcrypt -lgpg-error
| listing both direct (-lgnutls) and indirect dependencies.
On 6/30/06, Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a reason why gnutls-config and xml2-config aren't just tiny
wrappers around pkg-config for backwards compatibility? IMO, it's
kinda silly to have each package provide its own -config script with
its own set of bugs, rather than
* Martijn van Oosterhout
| On 6/30/06, Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Is there a reason why gnutls-config and xml2-config aren't just tiny
| wrappers around pkg-config for backwards compatibility? IMO, it's
| kinda silly to have each package provide its own -config script with
|
On 6/30/06, Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| 4. Custom config tools can often provide more info than available in
| pkg-config (plugin or config directories).
Like:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ pkg-config --variable=system_bus_default_address dbus-1
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
[making foo-config a wrapper around pkg-config]
If you started using pkg-config you'd have introduced a
build dependancy on a GPL'd program in a BSD licenced package, not
exactly a good idea.
[...]
That is something I hadn't thought about, gnutls is LGPL. Thanks.
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:42:12PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
It is also used to compile contrib modules that are included in the
distribution. If you started using pkg-config you'd have introduced a
build dependancy on a GPL'd program in a BSD licenced package, not
exactly a good
This one time, at band camp, Andreas Metzler said:
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
[making foo-config a wrapper around pkg-config]
If you started using pkg-config you'd have introduced a
build dependancy on a GPL'd program in a BSD licenced package, not
exactly a good idea.
[...]
That
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:42:12PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
It is also used to compile contrib modules that are included in the
distribution. If you started using pkg-config you'd have introduced a
build dependancy on a GPL'd program in a BSD licenced package, not
exactly a good
Hello,
currently libgnutls-config --libs' output looks like this,
-L/usr/lib -lgnutls -L/usr/lib -ltasn1 -lgcrypt -lgpg-error
listing both direct (-lgnutls) and indirect dependencies. - Its output
can be used for static linking.
I am pondering (and have now been asked by bts) on changing this to
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:38:56PM +0200, Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello,
currently libgnutls-config --libs' output looks like this,
-L/usr/lib -lgnutls -L/usr/lib -ltasn1 -lgcrypt -lgpg-error
listing both direct (-lgnutls) and indirect dependencies. - Its output
can be used
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