dbus_binding_tool in dbus-glib-1.pc.in

[Rob Taylor]

Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
>>>> it would be nice to use pkg-config to provide a variable for the
>>>> dbus-binding-tool like GLib is doing for glib-genmarshal. The attached
>>>> patch adds such support to dbus-glib.
>>> is this patch to simple or what is the problem? No comments at all?
>>>
>> Hmm, I'm not entirely sure of the value of it. What's your reasoning?
>>
>> I could maybe understand if the pkg-config variable was an absolute
>> path, but just making people do extra autofoo to discover that
>> dbus-binding-tool is dbus-binding-tool seems a little.. well.. cruel. ;)
> 
> the value of it is that it can be an absolute path at any time and the
> extra autofoo as you describe it are two additional lines in the
> configure.in script. Why not an absolute path or something generated
> through autoconf. Ask the GLib guys why the didn't do it. I just
> followed their example.
> 

Well, its our very own Havoc Pennington who added these (Now unchanged
from their originals by 5 years). Havoc, what do you think? Is it useful?

Thanks,
Rob Taylor