Re: pkg-config comments

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes: 
> > 1.) Is there any reason why it doesn't install its pkg.m4 file ?
> 
> pkg.m4 doesn't work. ;-)

Yeah, also realized this.

However, the GNOME_PKGCONFIG_* macros from gnome-common/macros2 do work
just fine; examples are in gnome-libs HEAD and libgtop HEAD ... :-)

> > 2.) Can you please add a command line option to print out its
> >     version number so that I can check for a specific pkg-config
> >     version in my configure.in ?
> > 
> 
> Sure that makes sense. I'll do it after Thanksgiving, except that I'll
> probably forget - if you could file a bug or remind me, that would be
> good. 

Cool.

> 
> BTW pkg-config doesn't work quite right with GTK 1.3.2 because I
> removed includedir from the cflags to avoid clashing with GTK 1.2, but 
> Pango requires search of includedir, so if you install Pango to a
> non-default prefix pkg-config won't output the flags to find
> it. Long-term fix is that GTK 1.2.9 will move its headers into a
> subdirectory of includedir. 
> 
> (Owen, just noticing that Pango should probably go ahead and have its
> headers in a subdirectory also so Pango 2.0 doesn't cause this
> problem.)
> 
> Havoc
> 
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