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Re: finding the location of header (.h) files
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tomas |
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Re: finding the location of header (.h) files |
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Thu, 3 Aug 2006 05:27:25 +0000 |
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:02:44AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, address@hidden wrote:
>
> >So you would first check for the existence of pkg-config [...]
> and inevitably (since there's more than one version of pkg-config) start
> to accumulate autoconf macros to filter through incompatibilities
> therein...
Yep, of course, you are right. I myself was dismayed when all those
foo-config started popping up everywhere and then pkg-config. But what
is out there providing this functionality? Find/locate might give you
some random (hopefully working) instance of what you are looking for,
but definitely *not* the one the sysadmin/installer wants you to use.
"Standard" locations are too unflexible, might work as a fallback. The
way I see it at the moment is:
1. User provided (--with-libfoo=XXX)
2. pkg-config if there (complain, but not quit if not).
3. standard locations (/usr/include or what not).
Any better ideas?
Let's hope pkg-config settles (or something better obsoletes it) in the
foreseeable future.
Regards
-- tomas
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