Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:40:37PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 13:18, Warren Turkal wrote: >> > On Monday 22 September 2003 05:54 am, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> > > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 04:11, Warren Turkal wrote: >> > > In the meantime, David Dawes convinced me that this isn't very useful >> > > for the traditional X libraries because pkg-config support for them >> > > can't be relied upon anyway. >> > >> > The only reason it cannot be relied upon is because XFree doesn't ship >> > the .pc files required to take advantage of it. Pkg-config requires the >> > .pc files to >> > be installed to use it. This patch fills that gap. Current autoconf >> > tests are based on heuristics instead of actual data supplied by these >> > .pc files. >> >> As David pointed out, shipping them now won't magically make them appear >> in all X11 installtions past and present, so they can't be relied upon. > > Warren, I'm going to migrate this pkg-config work over to people/wt for > you. > > I don't feel I have a complete understanding of the political *and* > technical ramifications of this change yet, and until I do I don't want > to risk it causing problems for the 4.3.0-1 deployment. >
Still do get rid of the old 017 since it is not needed anymore. Thanks, -- Warren Turkal President, GOLUM, Inc. http://www.golum.org
