- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:47:43 -0500
- To: www-lib@w3.org
- To: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> Gtk-config (and glib-config) is a small script that you can call with
> options --libs and --cflags. It is installed when gtk is installed
I asked about it on the GNU automake list and got this reply:
> > Somebody told me about gtk-config (part of gtk [2]) which you probably know
> > all about. To me, it sounds like a neat idea to have automake generate such
> > a script for installed libraries to make them easier to use.
>
> gtk-config cannot take care of all the involved issues, because,
> AFAIK, it will only print command line flags. Some systems require
> environment variables to be defined in order to properly hard-code
> library paths and such, so, IMO, libtool should be used to link
> programs with libtool-generated libraries.
>
> Unfortunately, someone has recently told me that libtool wouldn't
> handle already-installed libraries as I expected, so I'm willing to
> take some time to properly implement this feature within libtool. I
> hope release 1.3 will be able to do that.
>
> --
> Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
> oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org.au}
> Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
As libwww already uses libtool, I think we have a solution coming along.
Henrik
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