Re: generating pc file

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Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Regardless of what is supposed to be supported, make time overrides are
> not as reliable as settings from the configure script since it depends
> on the same overrides being applied each time that make is executed.
> Any variance will not be detected by make, and so already built build
> products won't be re-built and so they will be wrong.  It is possible
> that make is executed several/many times during a build, and also at
> install time.

> That is why I use configure and config.status substitutions to build the
> .pc file for my package. :-)

Thus making the problem much better by *guaranteeing* that the *.pc file
is wrong if there are any make-time overrides!  Er, wait....  :)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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