On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 09:33:50PM +0100, John Tytgat wrote:
> In message <20140317170827.GA21368@kyllikki.org>
> Vincent Sanders <vince@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
>
> > Also there is no pkg-config file which makes runtime detection a pain,
> > the author seems disinclined to add such a file either as autoconf
> > obviously does not require them and being a GNU project he follows the
> > one true GNU way.
>
> autoconf is pretty orthogonal to what pkg-config offers. You can easily
> use a pkg-config published library in an autoconf project. And it is
> easy to support pkg-config in an autoconf based project as well.
>
> One should not exclude the other, they are complementing each other.
>
Indeed they can.
> I don't see why one couldn't consider upstreaming a pkg-config support
> patch to libidn2 project.
Ah, you perhaps misunderstood me, libidn2 is developed by developers
who follow the GNU project guidelines.
When I gently introduced the idea of having a pkg-config to them It
was explained robustly in return by them that one should use autoconf
to achive build time config not use pkg-config.
It was futher suggested that this is GNU projects default position and
then there were some questioning of my personal sanity and other such
comments.
I decided not to persue the matter futher as this was just a minor
part of my overall unease with relying on an additional external
library.
The objections are borne from multiple concerns rather than any single
point.
>
> John.
> --
> John Tytgat
> joty@netsurf-browser.org
>
>
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Regards Vincent
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