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Stepan Kasal <kasal@xxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 03:09:21PM -0800, J.T. Conklin wrote:
>> While AC_CONFIG_PKGCONFIG_IN() is very appealing, writing a script
>> that takes similar arguments and generates a *.pc.in file that can
>
> if understand your situation correctly, you can still use
> AC_CONFIG_PKGCONFIG_IN to get the *.pc.in at configure time.
> You just cannot use AC_CONFIG_FILES to instantiate it.
That used to work. It still does, if you create a dummy .in file to
fool automake, IIRC.
However, as the author of AC_CONFIG_PKGCONFIG_IN(), I'd just like to
say that I stopped using it in favour of static .pc.in files a few
years ago, in order to preserve my sanity ;-) It's far easier to
substitute simple cflags, libs, version and requires stuff directly,
and is rather more flexible and understandable. I don't think it
gains you much other than added complexity and an ego-expanding
monster-sized configure script (which is probably why I originally
wrote it :)
The main reason I wrote it was a drop in replacement for
AC_CONFIG_LIBCONFIG_IN when I was transitioning Gimp-Print from
gimpprint-config to pkg-config. It made sense there, but I'm not sure
it's generally useful today. The variables it uses are rather
complex: it's geared to shared and static sets of flags and
package-internal and -external flags, something that pkg-config can't
do (and probably shouldn't, though support for static linking would be
nice).
Regards,
Roger
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