On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 06:13:00AM -0500, Warren Turkal wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > Warren, please expand on your rationale for this change. > > > > The 017 that was in the svn was not useful to any architecture and was > baggage from prior X versions AFAICT since there is already a "depend::" in > the Imakefile in the xc/lib/X11 dir. > > The 017 that was added simply adds pkg-config support for X11. This change > in no way affects the executables or libs. I think this change will be > useful to software developers. I also know that it will be helpful to my > effort at autotoolizing the X programs. Without this support for pkg-config > in place, I am unable to easily detect the location of libs such as Xrender > and set an arbitrary define via autoconf methods. With the pkg-config > support, I am supposed able to even keep portability with Cygwin relatively > easily. This is related to the xrender.pc, xcursor.pc, etc. Also, I really > do not have enough knowledge to build a fully independent autotooled libX11 > at this point as has been done with xcursor, xrender, and xft. > > Although I am working on repackaging libX11 with autotools, it is not done > yet. Also, it is not trivial to make the XFree86 build system use an > external libX11 even if I did. Thus, adding the X11.pc to the current build > system makes a lot of sense to me at this point.
Michel, does that explanation satisfy you? I find myself pretty neutral about this change. -- G. Branden Robinson | I just wanted to see what it looked Debian GNU/Linux | like in a spotlight. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Jim Morrison http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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