hi there, I agree that this would be desirable and that the extra dependenciies are probably acceptable. seems better than creating an extra package.
the pkg-config change is easy enough. with normal makefiles (where pkg-config is executed at build time), this shouldn't break anything. I do worry about all these poor sods that use autotools, there it seems that they would have to re-do the aclocal + ./configure stage as well to get the new build flags in. which might still be acceptable. but without some automake trickery they would have to add the subunit stuff to their own configure.ac or so, which seems a bit brutal. I am not a big expert on auto* stuff, but I guess what we would need is some way to get check.mm4 to include the subunit bits into CFLAGS and LDFLAGS as well. I don't know how to do that, and I am not sure that is really a good thing to do. seems odd if there would be this implicit inclusion of recursive dependencies, you would end up with quite redundant compile flags. I guess this is blocking it somewhat, perhaps anyone has some input on autotools and this sort of problems? thanks robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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