Re: TODO

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 14:31 -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 03:33:02PM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> since when does libtool care about CFLAGS
It hardly can avoid doing so if wanting to support multilibs.

>  or package versions?
It doesn't care about package versions, but it has to care about library
versions and paths to libraries.

Ralf