Hi Thomas, all, I just landed config scripts in NSS. NSS will be shipping them in pkg/pkg-config [1] from 3.27 on.
Cheers, Franziskus [1] https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/file/tip/pkg/pkg-config On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Franziskus Kiefer <fkie...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > thanks for your suggestion. I think it's reasonable to add config files. I > filed a bug for it [1] and hope we'll add them soon. > > Cheers, > Franziskus > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1277852 > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Thomas Klausner <t...@giga.or.at> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Nowadays, it is customary that libraries on Unix systems provide >> pkg-config files so that they can be more easily found by build >> systems like configure scripts. >> >> nspr does this: >> >> https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/file/tip/config/nspr.pc.in >> >> It also provides a nspr-config script: >> >> >> https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/file/tip/config/nspr-config.in >> >> which is an alternative, if outdated, method for the same. >> >> nss does not provide either. >> >> However, distributions have added such files, see e.g. >> >> >> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-libs/nss/files/nss-3.17.1-gentoo-fixups.patch >> >> or >> >> https://github.com/pld-linux/nss/blob/master/nss-config.in >> https://github.com/pld-linux/nss/blob/master/nss-mozilla-nss.pc >> >> and even the mozilla build system uses such a nss-config script to >> detect the nss location: >> >> >> https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/build/autoconf/nss.m4 >> >> despite the fact it is not provided by nss itself. >> >> Can you please add a nss-config script and/or a pkg-config .pc file? >> >> Thanks, >> Thomas >> -- >> dev-tech-crypto mailing list >> dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto >> > > -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
