pkg-config

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 08:52:59PM +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> The pkg-config program has been especially enhanced to take care of
> this. When compiled for Win32 (*not* if compiled for Cygwin, which is
> just a particular kind of Unix), it automatically replaces the
> "prefix" variable in .pc filles with the actual prefix deduced at
> run-time from the location of the .pc file.

IMHO this behaviour is not the best solution because it only works if you 
build under Windows. I cross-compile from Linux, so I have to kludge around 
the issue by setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH and using 
"--define-variable=prefix=..."

A nicer solution would be to allow relative paths in .pc files (relative to
the directory which contains the .pc file), then just setting
PKG_CONFIG_PATH would be enough.

Cheers,

  Richard

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