Re: TODO

[Albert Chin]

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.

> Principally it provides the right -L and -l flags to link libraries, we
> can get this from Libtool.  An an improvement would then be only
> providing the dependency -l flags on platforms that need it, and not on
> Linux for example.

Ick. Libtool is about portably building/using libraries. Why can't we
leave it at that?

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albert chin (address@hidden)