Re: paradox support: help needed

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 04:41:33PM +0100, Uwe Steinmann wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:17:46PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:04:35PM +0100, Uwe Steinmann wrote:
> > > > Does pxlib use pkg-config ?  That would be ideal.
> > > I wouldn't mind to use pkg-config, if I just knew how to
> > > get it going. Is pkg-config something gnome specific?
> >
> > It's trivial.  pkg-config is part of freedesktop.org so its fairly
> > agnostic.  All that is required is to install a .pc file
>
> Jody, sorry for bothering you again. I just thought about a potential
> problem that occurs, if pxlib is availabe but doesn't have libgsf1
> support. There seems to be no way to handle this with pkg-config
> except for creating two libraries and two .pc files for e.g. libpx and
> libpx-gsf. If I did the configurartion by myself, I would simply
> check for a function within libpx that uses libgsf1. pkgconfig doesn't
> appear to do a test compile but rather relies only on the information
> in the .pc file.
> Is there any clean solution beside the two library way?

Not really.  The fundamental issue always comes down to wether or
not the functionality is there at run time too.  Packagers get
nailed if there are two versions of a library that claim to be the
same but do not have the same symbols.