On Monday 30 January 2006 4:20 am, skaller wrote:
> * there is no provision for other than the limited set
> of resources (--cflags, --libs) that it supports
You can make any variable in the .pc file available - anything you can put
into the .pc using (e.g.) .pc.in can be made available to those processes
that read the .pc file. I use it to locate XML schema and other files.
I use:
xmldir=@QSF_SCHEMA_DIR@
libdir=@libdir@
added_libs=@ADD_PKG_LIB@
Libs: -L${libdir} -lqof ${added_libs}
then people can bring those in using:
QOF_LIB_DIR=`$PKG_CONFIG --silence-errors --variable=libdir qof-1`
QOF_XML_DIR=`$PKG_CONFIG --silence-errors --variable=xmldir qof-1`
http://qof.sourceforge.net/hacking.html#automake
> User code often requires other resources such as:
>
> ** environment variables
> ** media files
> ** working services
> ** authority
All supported as --variable=.
> ** I'm sure the list is as long as you like :)
> ** Remember not all 'code' is written C :))
If you can use sed or equivalent, you can make these available to .pc.
> For Debian many libraries live in /usr/lib, but not all:
> some installed libraries live in strange places anyhow,
> and some libraries -- such as the ones my own tool
> generates -- aren't installed, and even if they were they
> would not be installed by Debian package manager
> -- unless the component was so useful someone decided
> to package it. Thus, Debian Standards help (a LOT!!)
> but aren't enough (SDL doesn't come with pkg-config
> meta data).
That's why I support the --variable syntax. Works fine.
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