+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.
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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