The real problem here is when you have complex frameworks like gtk.
pkg-config basically will link you against gdk, gdk-pixbuf, gtk and a lot of other stuff. But in practice, not every application need to link against all of them.
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:11 PM Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dominique Martinet wrote:
> In practice, `pkg-config --cflags foo` will only fetch cflags for
> dependencies listed in Requires, not Requires.private
pkg-config --cflags foo
fetches cflags of Requires.private items in foo.pc for me.
I've patched many packages to use that feature, and haven't noticed any
breakage (so far).
-- Rex
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