Thread: Re: 7.4 Pkgconfig

Does anyone know anything about pkgconfig?

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

John Huttley wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 16:36, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I have no idea what that is.
> 
> This is the home page. If you have modern distribution with development
> tools, you likely already have it.
> 
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
> 
> 
> The man page is very good.
> 
> >From your (the pgsql developers) point of view, it is not too hard.
> With "make install", construct a postgresql.pc file and drop it in
> <prefix>/lib/pkgconfig  directory.
> 
> >From the application developers POV, there is one less thing to worry
> about.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 

--  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610)
359-1001+  If your life is a hard drive,     |  13 Roberts Road +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Newtown Square,
Pennsylvania19073
 

Bruce Momjian writes:

> Does anyone know anything about pkgconfig?

It's basically a generalized version of pg_config and similar tools that
works out of a centralized database.  I'm not convinced that it solves any
real problems without introducing new ones.  The idea is alright, but I'm
not eager to support pkg-config just to support it.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net