On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 09:43 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 <at> freenet.de> writes: > > :) yawn. Do you know that you are reheating "yesterday's gossip"? > > Meanwhile, the embedded SIG has implemented facts. > > Yes, by either ignoring your non-existent guidelines or just treating the > current unfinished draft as authoritative. Right. > IMHO that's not something to be proud of. Right - We (The Embedded Sig) had decided to let the facts speak and not to contact the FPC. I agreed to this approach, because it implemented viable precedences and avoided lengthy and fruitless discussions, as I had been confronted with before in FPC. > > It's simply that osgal's and osgcal's configure scripts mis-apply > > pkgconfig and do not acknowledge things similar to this: > > configure OPENTHREADS_CFLAGS=' ' OPENTHREAD_LIBS='-lOpenThreads' > > How is this better than ./configure working out of the box * It works without vendor-specific pkg-config files. > (as it would with a > proper pkgconfig setup)? * Which pkgconfig files? Debian? > Now if -lOpenThreads is really _all_ that's needed and on all platforms > supported by upstream, In case of openalpp it's only -lOpenThreads. I can't comment on the situation of osgal and osgcal, because I haven't seen Chris sources, yet. IIRC, at least one of these packages currently to be found in CVS, still uses Producer and relies on OSG1's API. > then not using a configure check at all might work > (still, it doesn't allow checking that the library is there and of the proper > version, which pkgconfig allows), but requiring CFLAGS and LIBS to be passed to > configure by hand is hardly a workable solution. Pardon? - It's how things are supposed to work with pkg-config: From /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4: ... AC_DEFUN([PKG_CHECK_MODULES], [AC_REQUIRE([PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG])dnl AC_ARG_VAR([$1][_CFLAGS], [C compiler flags for $1, overriding pkg-config])dnl AC_ARG_VAR([$1][_LIBS], [linker flags for $1, overriding pkg-config])dnl - It's how things are supposed to work with autoconf in general: configure CFLAGS=... Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
