Re: Glib detection

From: Dan Winship <danw gnome org>
To: Matthew Bucknall <matthew bucknall googlemail com>
Cc: libsoup-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Glib detection
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:05:47 -0400

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

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