Re: add pkg-config file support

2013-03-07 Thread Dan White
On 03/07/13 16:44 +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 08:55:59AM -0600, Dan White wrote: Supporting: ./configure && make install Is my best argument for pkg-config. Well, since pkg-config would fail in your described scenario (libev installed in a non-standard location means

Re: add pkg-config file support

2013-03-07 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 08:55:59AM -0600, Dan White wrote: > software for their system. Those are the types of systems in which libev is > more likely to be installed in non standard locations, and often is. But pkg-config doesn't solve that problem, not without other incompatible changes to libe

Re: add pkg-config file support

2013-03-07 Thread Dan White
On 03/07/13 06:52 +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 01:26:54PM +0800, "Dennis Lan (dlan)" wrote: It's quite obvious. With this patch, Any package depend on libev can use pkg-config to detect/check. Why would a package that depends on libev wants to detect it, when it n