Re: TODO

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Bob!

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> You seem to be a victim of a package install where every package has 
> used its own unique installation prefix.  It seems to me that most 
> systems use just one or two installation prefixes.

Absolutely.

But the point is that pkg-config is supposed to help with parallel
installs, and it most certainly does not!

> The system I use (Solaris based) uses three.  There is one for the 
> software that comes with the base system (under /usr)), one for 
> "freeware" (under /usr/sfw), and one created by myself for locally 
> installed packages (under /usr/local).
>
> The Gentoo Linux system I use has only two pkgconfig files.

pkgconfig directories, right?

> Libtool helps, but its resulting configuration (saved in .la files) is 
> static, while pkgconfig's configuration is dynamic since it may be 
> altered by the user.

You mean that the installed .pc files need to be altered by the
user to give things a hope of linking? ;-)

But seriously, why would you install a .pc using library, and then
alter the installed .pc file?

Cheers,
        Gary.
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