On Monday 22 September 2003 06:40 am, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > 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.
This is not a reason not to support them in the future. wt -- Warren Turkal President, GOLUM, Inc. http://www.golum.org
