Re: TODO

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Jacob,

Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 09:04:31PM +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>
> > 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!
>
>
> come on Gary, libtool is supposed to make building libraries
> more portable, but it is simply _broken_ for some systems at
> any given time, because the libtool team simply does not have
> the time to check that every change does not break on any
> systems.  so you end up having someone who finds the brokenness
> and sends in patches.

That is very true.

> think about it.
>
> you can either improve the interaction between pkg-confg and
> libtool in a positive and constructive manner, or you can just
> blame pkg-config.

I didn't mean to be uselessly negative about pkg-config, I was
(am) just frustrated with its flaws.  But, irrespective of that,
the bottom line is that what I want to do (the long scenario I
described earlier in the thread) can be much easier than it is
with current pkg-config.  And of course I would like to fix that,
by the simplest means available.  At first I thought that would
be to absorb pkg-config's functionality into libtool (to avoid
duplication of code and maintenance), but as you and others have
pointed out, the better way is to make it easier for pkg-config
to get the information it needs with libtool's help (where it is
available).

I'd love to help make that happen.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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