On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:05:07PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > would tell where the libraries are. From here, one could discover > > the needed additional libraries by grepping the .prl files. > > That seems doable, but still a bit of work. Is it worth it in your > opinion?
I think that it depends on whether it solves a problem or not, i.e., if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The pkg-config files are not even generated on mingw, and, from what I understand, they are not installed on Mac, so this would be a step forward. Nevertheless, Mac binaries are built without much hassle (seems to me, at least) and I am able to generate the needed .pc files on mingw without much effort (it seems that I am the only one using mingw on Windows). > Basically, the goal is to provide a mechanism for autoconf that works > out of the box for unix/x11, osx/quartz, osx/x11, windows, > windows/x11. By pointing configure to the right directory, it should > be able to find out what are the correct parameters to use. Your previous patch turned out to depend on too much things (the env var QMAKESPEC, the 'default' symlink) to be really robust. The one outlined after the hint by Andre' might be better in this regard, as it is independent of the above things and only requires that qmake is in the path. -- Enrico
