"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 here.
Autoconf can handle the simple case easily, but there seem to be times where it doesn't work so well -- in particular, include file locations, and additional library dependencies. Writing autoconf support for these without using pkg-config basically ends up the embedding the package-specific info (which would be in the .pc file) into each autoconf script that uses the library. For instance, for OpenEXR, "pkg-config --cflags OpenEXR" yields: -I/usr/include/OpenEXR [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, I'm not sure why (maybe it's only used by inline functions in the headers?)...] -Miles -- Ich bin ein Virus. Mach' mit und kopiere mich in Deine .signature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
