Re: TODO

[Jacob Meuser]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 08:53:15AM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 23:02 -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> 
> > > It doesn't care about package versions, but it has to care about library
> > > versions and paths to libraries.
> > 
> > again, functionality provided by pkg-config.
> > 
> > I am contesting the claim "Libtool already has all the information
> > it needs".
> > 
> I actually tend to think we should look at this the other way ... if we
> could expose the information Libtool has to other tools, pkg-config
> could defer to Libtool.

why can't libtool just ignore what it thinks is wrong?

> So rather than libtool taking over pkg-config, we make them work
> together.

how about just making libtool work correctly.  it's not the fault
of any single program that extra linker flags can end up in link
commands.  if libtool cannot deal with such situations, then libtool
is simply broken.

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