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Re: pkgconfig question
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Bob Friesenhahn |
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Re: pkgconfig question |
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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:17:23 -0500 (CDT) |
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, John Calcote wrote:
I'm interested in finding out more about the pkgconfig project --
specifically, how well it's received by the Autotools community.
Pkgconfig is usually a good thing but sometimes it becomes a curse due
to removing control from the user. For example, evaluation of
multiple pkgconfigs is usually in some arbitrary order in the
configure script but one of them might refer to an include/library
directory which is also home of a package (perhaps an older verion)
that the user does not want to use. This has struck me a number of
times and it is impossible to fix without manually editing the
configure script or even operating system directories.
It is the modern variation of "DLL hell".
Bob
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