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Re: 3.0 when?
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Tatsuro MATSUOKA |
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Re: 3.0 when? |
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Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:47:11 +0900 (JST) |
Hello
OK. I understand your policy well.
Then I'll also include the description of the pkg-config into my turial which
will be prepared in the
future.
Thanks for a reply.
Regards
Tatsuro
--- Benjamin Lindner <address@hidden> wrote:
> Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > Hello Benjamin
> >
> > I have fogotten ask you that the pkg-config and the Glib 2 will be
> > inculuded in
> > your distribution (to the mingw treees), which is available from:
> >
> > http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html
> >
> > These are not the libraries and header files but required to tool for the
> > pkg install for the
> > symbolic packages. Recently Unix tools tend to use the pkg-config.
> > So that I think at least it is better to inculde these in your distribution.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tatsuro
>
> Thanks for the link, I will take a look into it
>
> However, I frankly disapprove of forcing yet another packaging tool
> simply to retrieve compile and link settings.
> This only makes sense if the dependencies were built on the very same
> machine that the end program will run on. Otherwise all paths at compile
> time may be invalid - so why bother with them in the first place?
> And since win32 software should be designed to run from any location the
> user choses to install this is simply not useful.
>
> IMO it should be possible to specify compile settings and libraries via
> environment variables (like e.g. the LIBXML2 settings in when
> configuring libfontconfig). I see no point in requiring another tools
> for this.
>
> anyway, thanks again for the hint. I will take a look.
>
> benjamin
>
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