Re: TODO ... solution to the pkg-config "conflict"?

[Scott James Remnant]

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 17:37 -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 08:53:15AM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > So rather than libtool taking over pkg-config, we make them work
> > together.
> 
> so, what you want, is simply something like ...
> 
> $ pkg-config --libs foo
> -L/path/to -lfoo
> $ pkg-config --libs-libtool foo
> /path/to/libfoo.la
> $ pkg-config --libs bar
> -L/path/to -lbar -L/path/to -lfoo
> $ pkg-config --libs-libtool bar
> /path/to/libbar.la
> 
> where libbar depends on libfoo?
> 
Something along those lines, perhaps; yes.  I haven't fully thought out
my plans yet.

> if so, then write the patch and give it to the pkg-config folks.
> 
I took over pkg-config from Havoc some time ago; I haven't had the time
to either patch or reimplement it yet :o)

Scott
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