Re: X Strike Force SVN commit: rev 555 - in branches/4.3.0/sid/debian: . patches
On Monday 22 September 2003 06:40 am, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > 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.
This is not a reason not to support them in the future.
wt
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