[article] trimming down autoconf's configure scripts by using pkg-config

[Shawn Starr]

That sounds interesting however. Wouldn't you need _alot_ of .pc files to handle, just GNU libc alone? ;-)

Threads, math library, UTF support, typedefs, etc. There's a lot of things the GNU autoconf tools do although hacky they still do the job.

How would split the 100's of functions GNU libc provides? Not to mention the various ugly workarounds that the autotools determine?

Shawn.

----- Original Message ----
From: Enrico 'nekrad' Weigelt <weigelt at metux.de>
To: xorg at freedesktop.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:32:07 AM
Subject: [article] trimming down autoconf's configure scripts by using pkg-config


Hi folks,


here's a little article I wrote about an approach for encapsulating
platform dependent stdc-lib fixes (ie. some platforms have broken
string handling, etc) behind pkg-config.

It is mostly directed on autoconf (It is the one I have most of my
daily trouble with), but of course the approach works with other
buildsystems, even plain make, too.


The permanent URL of the article:

* http://www.metux.de/articles/coding/trimming-down-autoconf-with-pkg-config
    
I'm also currently working on concrete wrapper packages:

* http://wiki.metux.de/public/OSS_QM_Taskforce/projects/stdc-pkgconfig


Comments and suggestions please to the Maillist:

 oss-qm-discuss at metux.de


Thanks.

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