Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:17:40PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 20:36, X Strike Force SVN Admin wrote: >> > >> > Log: >> > Enabling pkg-config for libX11. The main artifact is that >> > there is now a file called /usr/lib/pkgconfig/X11.pc. >> >> Shouldn't we wait for an upstream decision on this? > > 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. wt -- President, GOLUM, Inc. http://www.golum.org
