But enough this flame war. I will probably bake somethig that will identify the presence of odbc_config and put it in the configure.ac/configure...
Thank you. On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 12:59 AM Igor Korot <ikoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 12:13 AM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 12:03:46AM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 10:57 PM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 11:47:58AM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > It still feels wrong however, that the distro maintainers dictate > > > > > to upstream packages how to do their business. > > > > > > > > which is... distributing and integrating the software? (after all, > > > > that's what those *-config are supposed to do, aren't they?) > > > > > > Yes, because surprisingly enough I didn't have any issues with PostgreSQL > > > library config script and neither mySQL library config script. > > > > > > Does unixODBC have more love than everything else? ;-) > > > > Most probably just a different maintainer. Too lazy to look it up > > right now. > > > > > Or there is something else going on? > > > > > > The maintainers just needs to decide whether everything should use > > > "pkg-config" or everything should use "own config" file. > > > > There are few things which get decided top-down in Debian. That's one > > of the most salient points of this distro. That's what I appreciate > > in it. > > > > > And if its me - I'd vote for letter - less maintenance burden for me. > > > If something bad happens - lets upstream deal with the issues. > > > > > > Wouldn't you? > > > > Not necessarily. The foo-config (for foo in PostgreSQL, sqlite, MariaDB) > > all behave probably slightly differently. That's why pkg-config entered > > the scene, after all. So there are arguments for both sides, > > > > Such transitions sometimes work, sometimes they don't. > > And here is the other point: > > [code] > igor@IgorReinCloud /usr/local/lib $ pkg-config --libs odbc > -lodbc > igor@IgorReinCloud /usr/local/lib $ odbc_config --libs > -L/usr/lib64 -lodbc > igor@IgorReinCloud /usr/local/lib $ > [/code] > > I am not familiar with Debian and how it handles different packages > but I have Gentoo 64-bit installed and running odbc_config > my program will pick up libraries from 64 bit install. > If I ever need 32-bit unixODBC it will pick up the library > from the /usr/lib. > > I as a developer wouldn't care, because I will not know all this. > But when I use pkg-config it looks like all it will show is the library > I'm supposed to link with. And if someone decides to install both 32 > and 64 bit libraries... > > Someimes its not even possible to create a pkg-config. ;-) > > But you giuys making it hard > > > > Cheers > > -- > > t
