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Re: Box2D: providing .pc files even if upstream does not?



2014-03-04 16:03 GMT+01:00 Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org>:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:18:11AM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>> naïve question: can you get the advantages of .pc for building this
>> package by having it in the source but not distributing it in a binary
>> package? Or, alternatively, using a debian-prefix for the package name?
>
> It has been sort of answered already, but maybe you didn't notice, so
> here's an explicit answer:
>
> Adding a .pc-file to a package provides no advantages for the package
> itself (other than being a better package).  Its purpose is not to help
> the package build, but to help other packages that use the package to
> build.  So if it's not in a binary package, it's useless.

It's not only for building other packages, but also for conventional
software development, even without packaging. I prefer to use
pkg-config for building my own programs when I can.

Greetings,
Miry


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