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Re: pkg-config wisdom
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: pkg-config wisdom |
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:48:58 -0700 |
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"Murray S. Kucherawy" <address@hidden> writes:
>> I imagine that pkg-config has not been integrated into Autoconf
>> because it does not fit well into the Autoconf philosophy.
>
> Right, so I'm wondering what that philosophy is, I suppose.
Usually Autoconf tests for particular features, by attempting to
compile (etc.) programs that use those features. pkg-config
instead tests for a particular version of a particular library.
Also, from the introduction to the Autoconf manual:
Because of its mission, the Autoconf package itself
includes only a set of often-used macros that have already
demonstrated their usefulness. Nevertheless, if you wish to
share your macros, or find existing ones, see the Autoconf
Macro Archive (http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/), which is
kindly run by Peter Simons <address@hidden>.
> I'm also wondering whether some set of macros that follows "if
> pkg-config installed then use it, else try to find stuff using
> this heuristic" exists out there someplace that I can use.
I do not know of one, but I have not looked for one.
--
Ben Pfaff
http://benpfaff.org
- pkg-config wisdom, Murray S. Kucherawy, 2009/10/22
- Re: pkg-config wisdom, Ben Pfaff, 2009/10/22
- RE: pkg-config wisdom, Murray S. Kucherawy, 2009/10/22
- Re: pkg-config wisdom,
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- Re: pkg-config wisdom, Russell Shaw, 2009/10/24
- Re: pkg-config wisdom, William Pursell, 2009/10/25
- Re: pkg-config wisdom, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/10/25
- Re: pkg-config wisdom, William Pursell, 2009/10/25
- Re: pkg-config wisdom, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/10/25
- Re: pkg-config wisdom, William Pursell, 2009/10/25