Re: Libtool and Pkg-Config

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 22, 2001, Havoc Pennington <address@hidden> wrote:

> pkg-config has some intelligence, i.e. if you request two libs at once
> it will nuke duplicate flags and order the -l flags properly.

Err...  It won't always remove duplicate -l flags, will it?  This
isn't always correct.

> Also, it can gripe about missing dependencies or conflicting
> libraries.

Good.

> I think for libtool it's as simple as having a concept of a "package"
> in addition to a concept of a library, so we can pass "gtk+-2.0" to
> libtool instead of "-L/home/hp/unst/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk-x11-1.3
> -lgdk-x11-1.3 -lXext -lgdk_pixbuf-1.3 -lm -lpangox -lX11 -lpango
> -lgobject-1.3 -lgmodule-1.3 -ldl -lglib-1.3"

Well, you can already create a dummy libtool library that will be
replaced with all of this when it's linked in.  In fact,
gtk-x11-1.3.la may be that (no longer dummy) library.

> Then the remaining thing to add is the RPM-style version comparisons,
> which is beyond my ability to implement in shell, but I'm sure someone
> can figure it out. ;-)

In shell?  I was hoping pkg-config could be implemented in something
more reasonable...

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