Re: pkg-config comments

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

James Henstridge <james daa com au> writes:

> > In GNOME 2.x we are already away from a macros directory, the macros are
> > installed by gnome-common, so that all applications - no matter whether they're
> > in GNOME CVS or outside of it - can use them.
> 
> I thought the agreed on solution was to distribute these macros with the
> libraries/programs they are written for (where they belong).  Having them
> in a special macros package is basically the same as what we have now.

I agree with James here - some central repository of .m4 files is
not the way to go.

It is slightly inconvenient for building packages with weird optional
dependencies (like gnome-python on gtkglarea) out of CVS, but I don't
think this is something for which we should be optimizing. And
pkg-config will vastly reduce the number of extra .m4 files we need
for things like this.

A pkgconfig .m4 file, should absolutely be distributed with pkgconfig,
since pkgconfig is in no way tied to GNOME at all.

Regards,
                                        Owen