[Patch] add pkg-config file support

Dennis Lan (dlan) dennis.yxun at gmail.com
Thu Mar 7 06:48:41 CET 2013


HI Marc

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Marc Lehmann <schmorp at schmorp.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:44:21PM +0800, "Dennis Lan (dlan)" <
> dennis.yxun at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   this patch is floating downstream which try to add pkg-config file
> > support,
>
> It's not clear what the advantage of such a patch would be. (or generally,
> pkg-config for a library like libev).
>
> >   It would be great if you can include in, so we can carry less ;-)
>
> If "you" are gentoo and you add patches like that, potentially breaking
> compatibility with other distributions and upstream, then you are simply
> doing it wrong.
>
> Note that fedora plans to rmeove the pkg-config file because it doesn't
> really improve anything (and they have an ethical upstream policy).
>

also where do you get this info?
I checked libverto (which rely on libev), they still use pkg-config ..
https://fedorahosted.org/libverto/browser/libverto/configure.ac#L149
yes, you may say that's the problem of libverto.. but you know you can help
here ;-)


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