Re: [BUGS] BUG #2585: Please provide pkg-config support

[ redirecting to pgsql-hackers since this is not a bug ]

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
>> Well, I use around 10 libraries in my project, it's easier to use standardized 
>> methods to gather the compiler/linker options using pkg-config than calling 
>> different configuration scripts for each one,

> Just FYI, this was proposed and rejected before.  pg_config is our
> method.  It doesn't seem like too onerous a requeriment to change "pkg-"
> to "pg_", is it?

The previous discussion starts here:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2004-08/msg00433.php

That requestor got off to an extremely bad start by presuming that
a documentation-free patch with no prior discussion would be a
sufficient way of proposing a new feature.  However there are a
couple of pretty compelling points mentioned later in the thread,
particularly the issue of multiple installations on one machine.
(And does pkg-config still not distinguish CPPFLAGS from CFLAGS?)

Since that was two years ago, maybe we should take another look
and see if pkg-config has gotten better.  If it hasn't evolved
some then the answer will probably be the same though.
        regards, tom lane