On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 21:59, Howard Chu wrote: > Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > Howard, what's your opinion/thought on adding this for master/RE25? Ryan > > tested it and it worked for him. > > My personal opinion is that pkg-config is garbage and in all my experience it > has > only ever prevented me from building whatever I was working on at the time.
I get the feeling there's an interesting backstory here. I'm actually quite surprised you've had a bad experience with pkg-config. It's really quite useful and far easier than calling foo-config legacy scripts. With regards to merging #8996, you didn't really answer Quanah's question. I'll also point out that you're not being forced to use openldap's pkg-config files. Many people prefer pkg-config because of its simplicity in handling library dependencies and header inclusions. I'm simply trying to extend this simplicity to openldap. Regards, Hugh
