On 03/08/08 11:54, Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote: > Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> FWIW, I think providing a pkgconfig file is very much a "root" >> solution (ditto $foo-config scripts, but *.pc are much simpler to >> write and read and have a unified interface). Lots of library >> packages (and also some others) provide them nowadays which is great, >> and has made the things you express dissatisfaction with in the above >> as well as other similar ones pretty much moot. > > i can't agree more. > >> In fact, I think VDR should also provide a *.pc file. I ship one in >> Fedora's VDR packages, and a good deal of it would be applicable to >> upstream VDR too. Just let me know if you're interested and I'll have >> a look at making a upstreamable version of it. > > i would even say VDR is broken in the way it handles plaugins. VDR's > Makefile should install all exported vdr headers in > $(PREFIX)/include/vdr and provide a vdr.pc file (as you suggest). then > plugins could be buildable outside of VDR's source directory and > install themself in $(PREFIX)/lib/vdr. as any other plugin capable > program out there i know. I don't care what the "install" targets actually do, since I dont use them. So if you want to change that, suggest a patch. However, it must still be possible to build and run plugins in VDR/PLUGINS/... as it is right now (without using "install-plugins"). Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
