[Ltib] Re: pkg-config

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Henry,

I'm in the middle of the merge out.  I should be done by the end of
today (I will announce it).  At that point you can get the latest from
savannah CVS and we can then try to iterate over the various packages
you need.  This new CVS version has the pkg-config patch.  It could be
used outside LTIB as long as the same prefixing mechanism is used.

As far as cross compiling goes, there comes a point where it becomes
difficult due to indirect library dependencies and also runtime tests
that must (normally) be made on the target.  LTIB was always thought by
me to stay a simple project and never try to become an actual
distribution (there are many good ones out there).  To me the real value
of LTIB is that it can shrink down small (impossible to do with regular
desktop distros) and it also allows a very quick and simple way to
reconfigure anything from the packages to the toolchain.  Having said
that more people seem to want graphics, so it would be good to see if
this is possible.  It may be the case that we reach a point where it
makes more sense to switch from cross compilation to native target
based.  This is the sort of thing OpenEmbedded (one very good project)
does.  There are other approaches such as scratchbox.  I've looked at
most of them and so they can be a helpful guide.

Regards, Stuart

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 18:09 -0800, hong zhang wrote:
> Staurt,
> 
> I am very interested on your pkg-config patch. Based
> on my experience, many people like WinCE because it
> has big libraries come with WinCE and convienent to
> use. Disadvantage of linux is that user has to collect
> proper libraries and those libraries spread worldwide.
> And hard to really put them together. Cross compile
> for packages are really hard. Not always succeeds. If
> one is not built properly, all libraries depend on it
> will stock.
> 
> Is your pkg-config patch only good to ltib?
> 
> ---henry
> 
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