Re: Glib detection

[Matthew Bucknall <matthew bucknall googlemail com>]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Dan Winship <danw gnome org> wrote:
> On 04/28/2011 04:37 PM, Matthew Bucknall wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a reason why libsoup cannot use PKG_CHECK_MODULES to obtain
>> the include/library paths for Glib as it does for libxml-2.0?
>
> It uses AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 because in addition to setting cflags and libs,
> it also sets several other variables, like $GLIB_GENMARSHAL and
> $GLIB_MKENUMS.
>
>> The
>> current mechanism makes cross compilation needlessly irritating.
>
> If there are bugs in AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 that make it not work with cross
> compilation, then you should file bugs about that against glib.
>
> -- Dan
>
I will do once I've figured out what is going wrong.