Re: lua.pc pkg-config file

[Nicola Fontana <ntd@...>]

Il Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:41:58 -0700 William Ahern <william@25thandClement.com> scrisse:

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:24:05AM +0100, Nicola Fontana wrote:
> > Il Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:08:53 -0700 William Ahern <william@25thandClement.com> scrisse:
> > 
> > Every distro I used (archlinux, debian, ubuntu and fedora) provides its
> > own version of lua*.pc and they will never agree until something is
> > proposed upstream. And this means, as Taylan correctly specified,
> > generating and installing a text file.
> 
> And every one of those distros is just Linux, and a mainstream Linux distro
> at that. Now try to compile something (cross or not) with a _hard_
> dependency on pkg-config ...

The proposal does not add any hard/soft/whatever dependency on
pkg-config. Maybe there is a fundamental misunderstanding here.

I re-quote a part of what you quoted:

    "And this means, as Taylan correctly specified, generating and
     installing a text file."

See the patch for details.

Ciao.
-- 
Nicola