Re: TODO

[Albert Chin]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:20:13AM +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Albert Chin wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:43:48PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > 
> >>On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 14:24 +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>6.  Absorb the functionality of the aberration called pkg-config.  Libtool
> >>>    already has all the information it needs, we just need to teach it (or
> >>>    maybe a subsidiary script) to spit out link flags after poking around
> >>>    in a dependency chain of .la files.
> >>
> >>There's actually a couple of things pkg-config does that Libtool doesn't
> >>currently do.  pkg-config's main job can be summed up simply as enabling
> >>parallel-installed -dev packages.
> > 
> > What about non-libtool libraries wanting to benefit from pkg-config?
> > This will require them to spit out .la files rather than .pc files.
> 
> Nope, to absorb pkg-config libtool will need to be aware of .pc files too.
> If libtool can't find a .la file, but there is a suitable .pc file in the
> search patch, libtool would pull the flags from there.

Just gross!

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albert chin (address@hidden)