Re: (ITS#5184) pkg-config file for libraries

[ghenry@OpenLDAP.org]

ando@sys-net.it wrote:
> mccann@jhu.edu wrote:
>> Full_Name: William Jon McCann Version: 2.3.34 OS: URL:
>> ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL)
>> (128.220.146.19)
>>
>>
>> It would be really helpful for openldap to ship a pkg-config (.pc)
>> file for libldap.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pkg-config
> 
> Quoting from the above link:
> 
>> When a library is installed (say from an RPM, deb or other binary
>> packaging system)
> 
> OpenLDAP only distributes source code
> 
>> If one installs from source, often there will be no .pc file
>> generated, and one may need to be manually written to reflect the
>> install.
> 
> No comment.
> 
> Having noted this, I think generating a .pc file from "make install"
> would probably do no harm and probably bring some benefit to people that
> want to use pkg-config to configure software dependent on OpenLDAP.
> 
> But I guess most packagers and distributors would still either provide
> their alternate means to configure packages, or provide specific .pc
> files, thus possibly breaking configurations based on OpenLDAP's .pc file.
> 

And most are still far behind and "do their own thing" anyway. Ours 
would get ignored either way.


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Gavin Henry.
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