Re: library dependencies

[Braden McDaniel]

Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> I'm maintaining a package with liba and libb. liba can be used standalone,
> libb uses liba. tools also in this package are compiled and linked fine.
>
> I'm reviewing the pkg-config files, and decided it might be best to have
> two of them: liba.pc and libb.pc. But here is what I don't know:
> should libb.pc specify "-la -lb" because b uses a? or will simply "-lb"
> work?

libb.pc should add -lb to Libs and it should specify that it depends on 
liba.pc by setting "Requires: liba". pkg-config will do the rest.

Braden