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From: Marcelo E. Magallon (mmagallo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-26 22:31:31


On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:42:13AM -0500, David Abrahams wrote:

> The only real problem now is that there are a plethora of different
> build / configuration systems out there. Should BBv2 try to cater to
> each one? We could generate pkg-config files in addition to
> Jamfiles, oh and we could generate Makefiles and autoconf files and
> Visual Studio Projects and Metrowerks projects and...

 I do get your point ...

 ... but I think it's necessary to say that autoconf has support for
 pkg-config and Makefile support for pkg-config is trivial. So in the
 particular case of Unix and Unix-like builds (not using BBv2)
 pkg-config support is enough is enough to address its needs.

 Marcelo


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