pkg-config

pkg-config

Posted May 7, 2007 21:45 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104)
Parent article: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again (O'ReillyNet)

The LWN law: as the number of the comments grows, the share of offtopic comments approaches 100%.

Rewriting pkg-config in Perl is a good idea. Tools that discover presence libraries and other software on the system should not rely on software that needs to be compiled (and especially, on the software that needs to discover some libraries for its own use). Otherwise, there is a great potential for chicken-and-egg problem on some systems. Portable bootstrapping of glib 2.x is quite hard partly because of the pkg-config issue. I hope the new pkg-config will be widely adopted.

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