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On Feb 17, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:45:35AM -0500, Daniel Johnson wrote:
>> Unfortunately, this is bad on systems that set link_all_deplibs=yes
>> like darwin. curl-config and libcurl.pc now don't list any dependent
>> libraries since they use @LIBS@, which causes linking to fail for
>> packages that depend on libcurl.
>
> I forgot about those two. I've checked something in that should
> fix them.

Yep, this is much better.

>
>> Actually, I see that libcurl.pc has been broken for a while, since
>> @LIBS@ is being passed to Libs.private and so don't appear with "pkg-
>> config --libs libcurl". Arguably, this is a bug in pkg-config, which
>> should merge Libs.private with Libs on darwin, but that doesn't
>> change the fact that libcurl.pc is currently useless. :)
>
> I've always assumed the pkg-config was Linux-only, which makes it
> not a
> problem, but it looks like that was naive. I guess configure will
> have to
> take that into account when it writes libcurl.pc.

It doesn't come with the system, but package managers like Fink and
MacPorts do have pkg-config packages since a lot of software does use
it. If you want to build anything Gnome-related, pkg-config is kind
of necessary. :)

Daniel

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Received on 2007-02-17