Re: please add nss-config script and/or pkg-config file

Hi Thomas,

thanks for your suggestion. I think it's reasonable to add config files. I
filed a bug for it [1] and hope we'll add them soon.

Cheers,
Franziskus

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1277852

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Thomas Klausner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Nowadays, it is customary that libraries on Unix systems provide
> pkg-config files so that they can be more easily found by build
> systems like configure scripts.
>
> nspr does this:
>
>         https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/file/tip/config/nspr.pc.in
>
> It also provides a nspr-config script:
>
>
> https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/file/tip/config/nspr-config.in
>
> which is an alternative, if outdated, method for the same.
>
> nss does not provide either.
>
> However, distributions have added such files, see e.g.
>
>
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-libs/nss/files/nss-3.17.1-gentoo-fixups.patch
>
> or
>
>         https://github.com/pld-linux/nss/blob/master/nss-config.in
>         https://github.com/pld-linux/nss/blob/master/nss-mozilla-nss.pc
>
> and even the mozilla build system uses such a nss-config script to
> detect the nss location:
>
>
> https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/build/autoconf/nss.m4
>
> despite the fact it is not provided by nss itself.
>
> Can you please add a nss-config script and/or a pkg-config .pc file?
>
> Thanks,
>  Thomas
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