Re: Static linking: pkgconfig vs libtool
Dmitry Katsubo <dma_k@mail.ru> writes:
> Russ, thank you for comments. To answer your question I quote only one
> important section from the document I've referred:
> === quote ===
> 3.2.4 pkg-config File
> Many libraries deliver a .pc file for use by the pkg-config helper
> utility, which aids other libraries and applications to link against
> libraries.
> All GAC library packages should have a pkg-config .pc file located in
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig. The filename must be named: package-X.Y.pc including
> the versioning. The version must reflect the same X.Y version as the
> package name. There must also be a symlink without the version to the
> latest version, as follows: from package.pc to package-X.Y.pc
> === end of quote ===
> What I think is important, that X.Y somehow correlates with package
> version. OK, it could be "API version", but API might not change, while
> some important information changes (e.g. the list of static libraries).
> For example,
> a) libtiff-1.0 is linked against libjpeg-1.0
> b) libtiff-1.1 is linked against libjpeg-1.1 and also libm.
I agree that would be nice, but I'm afraid that's not what we have.
> If *.pc files are not following the version of the package, I wonder how
> versions should be assigned and incremented, and what are the criteria
> for that.
They're assigned by upstream. Debian doesn't have any control over the
.pc file naming. We could exert that control by changing things around,
but I don't think that would be a good idea.
> So I wonder, if there are any polices, that regulate above mentioned,
> similar to .NET/CLI policies I've quoted.
Nope.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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