On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:37:37PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Widespread support for such a feature in configure scripts would make my
> life *significantly* easier. Currently I actually hack gcc to look in
> both /usr/local and /usr/pubsw, and I'd love to get rid of that hack but
> it makes building things a horrid pain.
What about pkg-config?
http://pkgconfig.sourceforge.net
Instead of you having to remember what all /a:/b:/c paths to add, it's kept
in a central database.
It has a few problems, but it's only at version 0.5 so far.
[I only became aware of this stuff last night.]
mrc
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