Dnia 2014-05-12, o godz. 21:24:26 Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> On 12/05/14 20:47, Peter Stuge wrote: > > Rich Freeman wrote: > >>> Longterm, this makes it year after year more difficult to develop > >>> software for "Linux". > >> I'm with you here, but what is the solution? > >> > >> If we say we stick to upstream then we don't provide pkg-config files > >> at all (in these cases). > > I think this is a sane default. > > Except having pkg-config is the only way to fix some of the build issues > we are seeing > today, like getting 'Libs.private: ' for static linking, there has been > multiple bugs lately, > and we are in middle of process of obsoleting every custom foo-config > due to same > reasons, so having pkg-config files is an absolute requirement. > Some binary-only distros might get away without them, but we won't. Err, you can disallow static linking. Simple solution with extra advantages like improving security. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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