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[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Matěj Týč wrote:

> I would like to know whether my ideas have some support among people who
> decide about pkg-config future.
> I would like to have support for CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS (currently it is
> everything ), CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS. 

I wasn't following this part of the thread too closely, but I don't
remember seeing any concrete use case for this.

Specifically, you have to show at least one case where you need a
separate CPPFLAGS or CXXFLAGS where the same result can't be achieved
with CFLAGS.

Similarly, for LDFLAGS, you need to show a case where you need a 
separate LDFLAGS that is different from what --libs produces.

> I would like pkg-config to produce <host>-pkg-config executable so that
> the user doesn't have to do it for himself.

For which <host>? Are you really suggesting that the pkgconfig 
package supply scripts for 100 different cross compilers? What
about people who never use cross compilers? They don't want those
hundreds of scripts.

> Next, I would like to search for that executable (or link) in the
> $prefix directory when using pkg-config with autotools scripts.

The $prefix directory is thw wrong place for it because the $prefix
directory contains the (in this case cross) compiler binaries.
Instead, you want that script somewhere on your path, preferably
the same place where your other cross compiler tools are.

> This is really neccessarry for smooth cross-compilation, am I wrong?

You, yourself can set up a <host>-pkg-config file now without
involving anyone else.

> Next, I don't like dependency on popt and glib (it makes compilation
> under Windows quite troublesome).

So cross compile it from Linux.

Its important to realise that most people (me included) don't consider
pkg-config broken so see nothing to fix.

> I would like to do something, but I would like to know whether it is
> welcomed or not first.

You seem to be seeing problems that everyone else took 10 minutes
to work around and then move on from.

Erik
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