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Re: pkg-config discussion [message #8591 is a reply to message #8590]

Tue, 20 March 2007 14:41

mirek
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Registered: November 2005

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Well, do not wory, `pkg-config` is coming. The real roadblock is still missing final 2007.1 release. I do not dare to change things too much now. Once we are back on dev version release cycle, this is one of first things to happen.

I do not plan to do anything complicated, just to "interpret" strings in Package organizer before being used - scan for ` and perform command if needed (most likely just once per compilation).

This way, all that is needed is to put pkg-config call into linker and compiler options. Not very elegant, but portably working, and that is all that is important...

Of course, more elegant solution would be to put it somehow into libraries / includes, but the trouble there is that pkg-config seems to return actual command-line elements, therefore conversion back to directories / lib names would be needed.

Mirek

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