Czuczy Gergely wrote:
> pkg-config is a relatively new method, but most packages
> (like gtk, silc's debian package, sqlite, alsa, atk, fontconfig,
> freetype2, gdk-*, glib, gthread, libexslt, libpng, openssl, pango,
> sigc++, xft, etc) support it,
That sounds very GNOME-biased, and the list on my machine supports that.
So it's far from universal.
> because it's prefferd, doesn't have
> non-standard behaviour(like php-config, doesn't have --cflags, it has
> --includes instead).
It depends on what you define as standard. pkg-config doesn't have a
--cppflags option, only --cflags, so I'm already wondering how one can
write correct makefiles with it.
> there are hundred millions of configure script that cannot
> decide how to get postgres' cflags and libs by themselves.
That's nonsense. pg_config is successfully used to interface to
PostgreSQL libraries.
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Peter Eisentraut
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