Thanks and a question or two
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Sat Mar 28 12:20:49 UTC 2009
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 03:54:39AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > However it might be worth having a "mingw32-pkgconfig" shell script
> > which just sets that variable and runs pkgconfig ...
>
> It should probably be called i686-pc-mingw32-pkgconfig so the autotools (and
> possibly other build tools) find it. Or is the idea intentionally not
> making them find it automatically?
It's a good point. Actually at the moment it works fine (configure
finds plain 'pkg-config', the pkgconfig libdir is set by an RPM macro,
and so we end up resolving MinGW packages). Looks like some
experimentation could be carried out here ...
Rich.
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