Re: [Freeipmi-devel] [PATCH] Add pkg-config support for FreeIPMI libraries (was: in need of guidance...)

[Albert Chu]

Hi Arnaud,

Applied the patch w/o problems.  Thanks.

Al

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 14:56 -0700, Arnaud Quette wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> 2011/6/28 Albert Chu <address@hidden>
>         Oh ...
>         
>         (...) 
>         I'm not personally familiar with the use of pkg-config.  With
>         what I see
>         online, shouldn't autoconf/configure be more than suitable?  I
>         suppose
>         if it doesn't break the normal autoconf/automake, then I'd be
>         fine
>         adding a patch.  Is it used alongside other build systems??
>         
> 
> pkg-config is complementary to autoconf/configure, in that it
> simplifies the detection and tests of build deps:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config
> 
> there are simple macros:
> http://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/pkgconfig/pkg_check_modules.html
> 
> and also the capability to create more advanced .m4 macros, as we did
> for NUT:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/nut/trunk/m4/nut_check_libpowerman.m4?revision=2821&view=markup
> 
> Jim Garlick (who's also a friend) can argue on this, since IIRC I sent
> the pkg-config patch for PowerMan, used in the above m4...
> 
> And the same patch is attached for FreeIPMI ;-)
> Please consider merging it.
> 
> BTW, you may also be interested in removing autogen.sh for autoreconf:
> http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/autoconf/autoreconf-Invocation.html
> 
> cheers,
> Arno
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