Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Qwt packages for Fedora

[Trond Danielsen]

2007/3/16, Johnathan Corgan <address@hidden>:
> Jason Coy wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I agree that the .pc file is the best way to handle providing this
> > info.  In the qwt tar file on the n4hy.org web site there is a version of
> > the qwt library that has the .pc file in it.  It is similar to the qt-mt.pc
> > file that is installed by qt.

I will send an email to the upstream developer regarding the pkg-config file.

> Well, I've since reverted a portion of the gr_qwt.m4 file to remove the
> need for the qwt subdirectory.  The reason--the canonical tarball from
> [...]
> It's really up to the distribution packagers to standardize these
> according to the LSB, so Trond, you could create a .pc file with the
> right info for where you're putting them with your RPM.  But my
> configuration script needs to work whether there is a .pc file or not,
> so I can't take advantage of it until even the canonical upstream source
> has one.

When packaging stuff I try to remain compatible with upstream, but the
qwt package contains _alot_ of header files, and I think it would be
better to store them in a separate subfolder. I'll discuss this with
the upstream devs too.

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Trond Danielsen