Thank you for your reply, Dan > And where is the problem? E.g. > > Name: @PACKAGE@ > This does not work. I need a name of the library that libtool produces in the end...
> and then process the .pc.in by configure (AC_CONFIG_FILES). If you don't want > to > use $PACKAGE, well then use some self-defined variable. I guess your > Makefiles also > gets the library name from somewhere (e.g. configure). > > However, IMO it is a stupid idea to use different names for the same library > on > different platforms. It makes it hard to search for this library by a simple > portable > configure script. It is a stupid idea indeed. But that's how things are. However, pkg-config makes it easy to search for this library portably > > BTW: Your question is not related to pkg-config. Maybe you want to consult the > autotools lists. I actually did. This is the automake mailing list :-) Regards, Matej
