On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 01:17:31AM -0600, DJ Lucas wrote: > I had completely forgotten about gtk1 and made a typo, but I find this > to be very sloppy: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gtk+-2.14.4]# pkg-config --libs gtk+ > sh: gtk-config: command not found > sh: gtk-config: command not found > sh: gtk-config: command not found > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gtk+-2.14.4]# pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 > -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 > -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lz > -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gtk+-2.14.4]# > > Same thing for glib. Should this be fixed at this point? > Funnily enough, I came near the glib-1 part of this yesterday, as part of investigating things which ship their own copies of other libraries. In the end, I concluded that did no harm: it only uses its copy of glib-1 to provide a static lib for itself, which is perfctly acceptable. The "workaround" for missing .pc files using these long-obsolete -config files is just part of the program's history.
The main use of pkg-config is from within a configure script. I agree that it looks odd, but changing it risks damaging working builds for people who still use the obsolete versions. To me, it's not worth spending time on. YMMV. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
