On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 06:49:39AM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: [...] > > But really that's insane, because I know you will > > end-up hardcoding all kind of linker flags to > > these fallback calls, > > Yes, some external libraries that never have > additional dependencies currently depend on pkg-config. > > > and this defeat completely the purpose of such > > simplified code. > > I thought the purpose is to allow educated developers > to use pkg-config while (uneducated) users (like me) > will not understand how this is easier than using > configure parameters.
Yes, it's also simpler for the users. > > > They will also almost never be tested, > > I will care about the testing. Well, you probably won't test static linking of random libs on various platforms typically. pkg-config makes possible to completely ignore that part since it moves the responsibility away from us. That said, if you want to support a fallback as I suggested above, it won't work as you expect:if you want to link with your custom flags and be sure not to have pkg-config taking over your parameters (basically linking to the system package instead of the one you specified through custom link flags). [...] -- Clément B.
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