[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] directfb -> pkg-config

[joerg at britannica.bec.de]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:35:40PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> Seriously, this all worked fine for the past 7 years or so before
> there was such a thing as pkg-config. pkg-config is yet another case
> of overengineering and inventing a solution to a nonexistant problem,
> or rather inventing the problem itself, which seems to be a common
> mistake of GNU/Linux these days and leads to endless bloat...

Sorry Rich, but this is ignored. Just look at the checks necessary to
get statically linked SDL, SSL or Kerberos to work and you would know
that it didn't work fine.

pkg-config is a *huge* improvement for many libraries with larger
dependency list and makes writing portable configure scripts a lot
easier. I don't like the "reference" implementation, but that is a
completely separate issue.

As a side note, the suggested "fake" pkg-config can be as simple
matching the various existing include dir / library dir options with the
target package name and emulation --cflags and --libs. That would make
the OP happy, it would mean that a lot options can be deprecated etc.

Joerg