On Thursday, June 07, 2012 08:15:41 PM Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
wrote:
> Most Qt applications do not need to use pkg-config. If an app needs an
> external library which ships a .pc file (libusb, for example), then the
> programmer needs to call pkg-config from within the .pro. So, it's the app
> that requires pkg-config and not qmake.
>
> For what I understand of the bug report, this is the case.
>
> Although part of Debian's Qt-KDE team, I don't usually hack in Qt itself
> (at least in it's packaging), but I think the team will agree that
> pkg-config should not be even a Suggest. If they don't... well, someone
> may change that ;-)
Looking at qtads.pro, it contains:
CONFIG += link_pkgconfig
PKGCONFIG += sdl
So it looks like there's an optional qmake feature to ease using pkg-config.
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Daniel Schepler
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