Re: TODO

[Scott James Remnant]

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 15:27 -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 10:21:19AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > It's just that their functionality
> > intersects and partially conflicts.
> 
> how?
> 
> pkg-config is used to give basic information about installed packages.
> libtool is used to build libraries.
> 
> pkg-config is used in configure scripts.
> libtool is used in Makefiles.
> 
> yes, it's possible to use constructs like
> 
> foo.so: foo.o
>       ${CC} ${LDFLAGS} -o foo.so foo.o `pkg-config bar --libs`
> 
> in Makefiles, but this is not overlap in a conflicting way.
> 
This is actually exactly what happens when you use pkg-config in a
configure script.  It generates a (e.g.) GLIB_LIBS Makefile variable and
you arrange for the contents of that to be added to the link line --
just like you say here.

The conflict is that pkg-config not only provides the -L and -l needed
to the library, but also those for all of its dependency libraries.

So does Libtool.

They're both trying to deal with platforms like Solaris that don't have
a needed-following link loader.

It would be far neater if they could co-operate with this.

Scott
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