Re: 02/05: gnu: libmad: Install pkg-config file.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Kei,

Kei <kkebreau@posteo.net> skribis:

>> It seems to me that we shouldn’t provide .pc files if upstream doesn’t
>> do it.  The main reason is that developers who use Guix will come to
>> rely on it and unknowingly write code that doesn’t work on other
>> distros.  (I remember pestering in the past as I stumbled upon packages
>> who depended on some library as packaged by a specific distro.  :-))
>> 
>> WDYT?
>> 
>> Apologies if I missed an earlier discussion!
>
> No apologies needed, the discussion was minimal at best.  This patch is the
> result of my yielding to the forces of incompatibility you mention.  Major
> distributions like Debian, Arch Linux [1], and Fedora [2] have all added pkg-
> config files for (at least) libmad.  Audacity expects to find pkg-config files
> for the system libraries it uses, so I supplied those to follow the path of
> least resistance.

Ah, that makes sense; it’s a case where I think it’s OK to follow the
majority.

Perhaps we can keep the .pc file for libmad, adding a comment mentioning
what you wrote above, but remove it in those cases where it’s not needed
(as in: not required by Audacity & co., and not done in other distros)?

Thanks,
Ludo’.