Re: Proposal: Move .pc files into src/

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Am 18.03.2010 19:54, schrieb Behdad Esfahbod:
> Hey,
> 
> I have a minor proposal for library maintainers: Move .pc files for each
> library to the src directory for the library itself.
> 
> The benefit is mostly during development.  I personally do "make install" in
> the src dir only, because if I do that in the toplevel, I have to wait an
> extra hour for gtk-doc to finish generating docs for the installation.

For which module does it take *one hour* for you? git head version again is
notably faster :)

Stefan

>  "make
> install" in src/ works fine for the most part except that it doesn't install
> the pkg-config file.  So for example I do "make install" in vte/src updated to
> master, then go building gnome-terminal and still get a version error for vte.
>  Because the new .pc file is not installed.
> 
> By grouping the .pc file and the library itself, these kind of issues are avoided.
> 
> A couple minor issues with doing this are:
> 
>   - The uninstalled.pc files need to remain in toplevel to be useful.  Means,
> they will be separated from .pc files
> 
>   - For packages shipping multiple libraries, the .pc files will not be
> gathered in one place anymore.
> 
> I don't think any of those two is a major issue.
> 
> What do people think?
> 
> Cheers,
> behdad
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