Re: no .pc file

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Yaroslav Bulatov wrote:

> Oops my bad....that was a bad paste from some auto-generated code.
>
> This is basically a modified version of .pc file I get when building
> zlib. Not sure how useful this is because you need to update "prefix"
> in this file manually each time you rebuild libtool. Ideally the .pc
> file would be generated automatically by configure/make

If it is not clear, package config files are operating system and/or 
operating system distribution and/or operating system release version 
specific.  One reason for this is that each operating system 
distribution uses its own names for pkg-config package definitions. 
Using zlib as an example is not useful since zlib does not depend on 
any other packages.  Most packages depend on other packages and so 
there is an OS-distribution (or even site-specific) list of packages 
that this package depends on.

While many packages do produce sample pkg-config files (based on 
guess-work or assumption of a partiticular OS distribuiton), it is 
common practice for the default offering to be modified by the OS 
package distribution maintainer because the OS uses a different name 
for a similar thing.

Being intended for portable software, libtool does not concern itself 
with a hand-edited/non-portable framework like pkg-config.

Bob
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