Re: X Strike Force SVN commit: rev 555 - in branches/4.3.0/sid/debian: . patches
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 13:18, Warren Turkal wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2003 05:54 am, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 04:11, Warren Turkal wrote:
> > In the meantime, David Dawes convinced me that this isn't very useful
> > for the traditional X libraries because pkg-config support for them
> > can't be relied upon anyway.
>
> The only reason it cannot be relied upon is because XFree doesn't ship the .pc
> files required to take advantage of it. Pkg-config requires the .pc files to
> be installed to use it. This patch fills that gap. Current autoconf tests
> are based on heuristics instead of actual data supplied by these .pc files.
As David pointed out, shipping them now won't magically make them appear
in all X11 installtions past and present, so they can't be relied upon.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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