Hi, Philip Brown <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:08:36AM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > > > > you obviously didn't understand what pkg-config does since it does a > > completely different thing than autoconf and in no way intents to > > replace it. > > >From the pkgconfig README: > > "pkg-config is a script to make putting together all the build > flags when compiling/linking a lot easier. " > > Sounds a whole like like autoconf to me. > Or at most, autoconf plus libtool. Which you guys already use. > So pkg-config is redundant. > > To put the same thing another way: > autoconf+libtool seemed to work fine for gimp1.2.3. So if it wasnt broke, > why are you trying to 'fix' it? could you please just stop talking about things you don't understand. Thanks. Salut, Sven FYI: pkg-config replaces glib-config, gtk-config, gimp-config and all those other foo-config scripts that have been around in the time before pkg-config.
