From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 14:42:40 +0200 From: Enrico Weigelt To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Announce: standalone libixp Message-ID: <20070701124240.GA10308@nibiru.local> References: <20070630173039.GB1435@nibiru.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8eafc4e0-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * Charles Forsyth wrote: > >Especially if you don't have evrything in standard locations > >(ie. on crosscompiling), there's no need for laying hands on > > why wouldn't things be in standard locations when cross-compiling? Well, as long as nobody has the great idea to pass absolute search pathes, an sysroot'ed environment would be fine. But there're lots of other situations where pkg-config can help much. For example if you want to run checks before compiling ie. to make sure the lib is installed and is new enough. And think abouth cases where you don't have standard locations, mvcc, etc. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------