use of the Requires.private field

[Vincent Torri]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Andreas Metzler <
ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:

> Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Vincent Torri <vincent.torri at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hey,
>
> >> We have 2 libraries, named Eina and Evas. Eina is some kind of data
> types
> >> lib. Evas depends on Eina. Hence, Eina is "public". Its types are used
> in
> >> the API and we have, for example, in Evas.h (the public header)
>
> >> #include <Eina.h>
>
> >> The .pc file of Eina is named eina-0.pc
>
> >> My question is:
>
> >> should I put eina-0 in the Requirements field, or in the
> >> Requirements.private field ?
>
> > Requires.private. You need to make sure that users get the Cflags from
> > Eina for the datatypes, but they don't need to explicitly link to Eina
> > unless they're statically linking. See FAQ #2 here:
>
> > http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html<http://people.freedesktop.org/%7Edbn/pkg-config-guide.html>
>
> > This guide is also in the latest pkg-config release if you have it.
>
> Quote
> "Requires.private: A list of private packages required by this package
> but not exposed to applications."
> Unquote
>
> If Evas.h  includes <Eina.h> then evas *does* expose Eina's API to the
> application.
> cu andreas
>

So ?  What should I do ?

Vincent Torri
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