On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 14:47 +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > I've just started packaging some library which provides .pc file for > pkg-config. So I was wonder where to put this file and if my -dev package > should depend on pkg-config. > > As usual I started looking how it is done in other libraries and > unfortunatelly this didn't lead me to clear answer. > Seems that policy doesn't describe it either. > > Problem a: > > Where .pc file should be put? > Let's say I've got libXXX<soname> and libXXX-dev packages. > libXXX-dev ... it's part of the development side of your package, like the Libtool .la file, and any other "how to build this" information. > I suppose that I should put it in libXXX-dev package, but I found some > packages which contain this file in libXXX<soname>. > They're buggy. > Problem b: > > Should my package depend on pkg-config? > I thought yes, but many packages didn't do that. > No -- not unless your package, for some mad reason, requires users to use pkg-config to build against your shared library. Packages that use pkg-config to find out about the shared libraries they need to build, build-depend on pkg-config. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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