On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:40:37PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > 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. Warren, I'm going to migrate this pkg-config work over to people/wt for you. I don't feel I have a complete understanding of the political *and* technical ramifications of this change yet, and until I do I don't want to risk it causing problems for the 4.3.0-1 deployment. -- G. Branden Robinson | Humor is a rubber sword - it allows Debian GNU/Linux | you to make a point without drawing branden@debian.org | blood. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Mary Hirsch
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