Re: [ft-devel] using pkg-config

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 13-09-15 08:26 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
>> Does it make sense to completely switch to pkg-config?  All of the
>> above libraries provide .pc files.  However, I wonder whether there
>> are situations where there usage of pkg-config is problematic.
>>
>> A certain burden is that pkg-config itself must be installed (or
>> pkgconf, which does the same in a probably better way).  Is this a
>> hassle on some platforms?
> 
> My impression is that although on "mainstream" linux distros it's a
> pretty good bet pkg-config is available, it's far from universal if
> you care about the fringes -- and freetype looks very much like the
> sort of library that tends to care more about the fringes than usual.

Users can install pkg-config.  No big deal.  Really, it's 2013.


> It also used to the case that pkg-config didn't handle
> cross-compilation properly (I haven't checked this in a while), which
> seems like it would be an issue for freetype.

Works just fine for cross-compiling.  I do that every day.

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