From: Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:38:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * TODO:  propose pkg-config merge.
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* TODO:  propose pkg-config merge.
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+2001-04-21  Gary V. Vaughan  <gvv@techie.com>
+
+	* TODO:  propose pkg-config merge.
+
 2001-04-21  Nick Hudson  <skrll@netbsd.org>
 
 	* ltmain.in: Correct an error in yesterday's patch.
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@@ -21,6 +21,21 @@ libraries in sibling subdirectories within a project, using the -L
 notation, without getting builddir pathnames ever mentioned in .la
 files that get installed.
 
+* Eric Lemings <elemings@cyberia.lemings.com> writes:
+  Because of a growing number of config scripts for packages in GNOME 1.2
+  (e.g. glib-config, xml-config, orbit-config. etc), development of GNOME
+  2.0 spawned a separate tool called pkg-config that allows all packages
+  to use one tool rather than several different scripts to query compile
+  flags, link flags, and other configuration data.
+
+  The functionality of pkg-config seems to me to have a lot of overlap
+  with the goals of libtool.  I was wondering if anyone had considered
+  adding an eighth mode to libtool that just queries the installed
+  library for the same information that pkg-config provides.  Since
+  most packages that use pkg-config also use libtool, I think this
+  would be a good way to reduce maintainer and developer dependencies.
+
+
 In the future:
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