[poppler] problems with pkg-config and BSD

Kristian Høgsberg krh at bitplanet.net
Sun Mar 26 17:24:36 PST 2006


Vincent Torri wrote:
> hello,
> 
> a friend wants to install a lib that relies on poppler. But he uses a 
> FreeBSD, and it seems that pkg-config has big problems on BSD.
> 
> Could you please add a small config script like glib-config ? I've 
> attached an example for poppler. I think that it works.

I can't imagine what problems pkg-config could have on BSD, but we're 
not adding poppler-config.  The *-config scripts predates pkg-config and 
some packages still ship them for compatibility, but adding *-config to 
a new project doesn't make sense.

cheers,
Kristian



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