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[Ralf Mattes]

Am Dienstag, 28. August 2018 14:57 CEST, bill-auger <bill-auger at peers.community> schrieb: 
 
> 
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:48:40 +0200 Hermann Meyer wrote:
> > Using pkg-config means that it works on any system, even older ones,
> 
> using pkg-config means that it works on any system that has pkg-config
> installed - using pkgconf means that it works on any system that has
> pkgconf installed.

No, using pkg-config means that the makefile will work on any system that uses pkg-config
_and_ on any system that has a sane installation of pkgconf (i.e. one that symlinks pkg-config
to pkgconf).

- and either of pkg-config and pkgconf can be
> installed on any system regardless of what the distro declares as the
> "official" implementation
> 
> 
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 21:23:47 +0200 Christopher Arndt wrote:
> > Agree on both accounts. Just use 'pkg-config' like everybody else.
> 
> building on what ralf wrote, the primary consideration should be only
> what is best for the individual software projects - if both pkg-config
> and pkgconf are binary-compatible then it probably makes absolutely no
> difference to an upstream project - the only reason to take that
> difference into consideration is if an upstream project
> would were targeting one distro specifically or if you were a distro
> packager (targeting one distro specifically) - then it would be more
> convenient to use the implementation the disto has in it's repos

The only reason to invoke pkgconf as pkgconf would be to target 
- a distro that used pkgconf but does _not_ install a symlink (which distro does this?
  (Arch/Fedora/CentOS/Debian all provide a symlink).
- a project that would need to use features of pkgconf that are not available in
  pkg-config. Are there any?
 
> otherwise, an upstream project that is not targeting one distro
> specifically, should have no concern for this issue - it is the job of
> packagers to make each program compile and run on their system - if
> the 'foo' program can not be installed on one particular distro because
> of some technical decision that distro made, that should be of no
> concern to the upstream - but that is not the case here - if it were
> absolutely necessary to install pkg-config on arch to get 'foo' working
> then that can be done - and that is the concern of the arch packager
> alone and no one else
 
??? So you would think it's ok if a makefile invokes ahardcoded gcc instead of
cc even so the code compiles fine with clang or sun's cc?
IIRC Fon's goal was to provide a rather generic makefile ...

 Cheers,RalfD