Re: TODO

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Albert Chin wrote:
> > > > 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!

I do not believe that libtool should ever know about pkg-config or its 
.pc files.  Libtool should only know about compilers, linkers, and 
standard Unix utilities.

Configure scripts may easily use pkg-config if they need to, and pass 
any necessary parameters on to libtool.  This has been working fine 
for years.

Bob
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