Re: Libtool and Pkg-Config

[Eric Lemings]

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> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 01:29:23AM -0600, Eric Lemings wrote:
>
> > I was thinking that if the data maintained by pkg-config could somehow be
> > added to the .la files and libtool could keep track (a registry perhaps) of
> > installed .la files, that would just about cover everything that pkg-config
> > currently does.  Some of this data is already in the .la files I believe.
>
> Ick! If anything, pkg-config should use libtool. I don't think libtool
> should *depend* on pkg-config at all. Libtool might be enhanced to
> help pkg-config get at certain data but I hope it does no more than
> that.  That said, *.la files are already easy to parse.

You misunderstand.  I'm talking about totally integrating the functionality of
pkg-config into libtool and thus getting rid of the need for pkg-config.

Eric.