Re: pkgconfig files on static arches...

On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 05:04, Matthieu Herrb wrote:

> Hmm I'm not familiar with the pkgconfig stuff. I'm not sure what the 
> Version:
> field is used for. If it's used to specify a shared lib revision, then 
> it
> doesn't make sense on static arches.
> If it's used to specify an external version of the package, then 
> XFree86 is
> wrong in using the shared library revision here.

It's used to specify an external version of the package.  Interestingly
the configure script has the version hardcoded, but I'm as yet unclear
as to why that version of the version isn't used.

I will probably look into this further later tonight if no one beats me
to it.

Marc