<div dir="ltr">+1 for this</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-08-23 15:40 GMT+03:00 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bero@lindev.ch" target="_blank">bero@lindev.ch</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 2016-08-23 14:25, Tomasz Gajc wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
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looks like it is a good time to switch to pkgconf and replace ancient pkg-config, right ?<br>
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Right, now would be the perfect time... We should definitely do it.<span class=""><br>
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What are the benefits ? Barely none for luser :) In theory it should have a positive impact on building packages, by building better optimized chain of dependecies when linking i.e.<br>
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pkg-conf: $ldflags -lbar -lfoo pkgconf: $ldlags -lfoo<br>
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why only -lfoo, because pkgconf is smart enough and knows that -lfoo is linked with -lbar already.<br>
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Also:<br>
* more actively developed - it's been years since anything changed in pkg-config<br>
* exports its functionality as a library - easier to embed in something else (cmake?)<br>
* no dependency on yucky glib<br>
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ttyl<br>
bero<br>
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