From 3d9d5960c31fec21ac3793cb3d75f83530892a3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gary V. Vaughan" Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:38:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * TODO: propose pkg-config merge. --- ChangeLog | 4 ++++ TODO | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 2c05605e9..ba8c9bdcb 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2001-04-21 Gary V. Vaughan + + * TODO: propose pkg-config merge. + 2001-04-21 Nick Hudson * ltmain.in: Correct an error in yesterday's patch. diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 47426b3d0..f70f99a7b 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -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 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: ************** -- 2.47.3