Re: [Lzip-bug] Missing pkg-config support?

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> you would only provide the .pc file

To begin with, I'm opposed to metadata-based approaches to portability. 
They are a maintenance nightmare.

If I have understood correctly how pkg-config works[1], the .pc file 
must be generated by the makefile at build time, and it contains fixed 
directory names that prevent the library to be found if it is moved 
after instalation.

[1] http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html

If someone makes a patch for this that I'm comfortable with, I may 
distribute it, but I won't implement it myself.


Regards,
Antonio.