Steve Langasek writes: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:23:00PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> Le dimanche 09 décembre 2007 à 19:11 +0100, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : >> > Just curing the symptoms instead of the problems will not help to get >> > there any sooner. > >> What if there is no problem? > >> For example, pkg-config --libs gtk+-x11-2.0 will return, among others, >> -lglib-2.0 and -lm. And this is perfectly intentional. > > Just because it's intentional doesn't mean it isn't absurd and wrong.
What happens for a user who (however absurd or insane he might be to try this with gtk+) tries to link his application statically? Perhaps the "absurd and wrong" part is that pkg-config does not provide a way to distinguish between use cases, and that the name for the current behavior should also be --static-libs rather than --libs, but there is a good reason to provide the transitive closure of dependencies for a package *somewhere* in pkg-config. Michael Poole
