Re: [boost] Re: feature wish for boost 1.32.1 or 1.33.0: pkg-config support

From: Andreas Pokorny (andreas.pokorny_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-01 15:46:22

On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:27:04PM -0600, "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:19:36AM +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> 
>  > I though that emits the flags that /should/be/ used to compile
>  > against Boost, not the flags the /were/ used to compile Boost itself.
> 
>  You can store arbitrary variables in .pc files and retrieve them using
>  pkg-config --variable=name.  The only trick here is to define the name
>  of the package or packages and make that consistent across all systems.
Thats not enough, the return values of pkg-config must be dependant on 
the toolset setting, and a few flags like debug, multithreaded.. 

>  It's no use to have boost-redhat.pc and boost-darwin.pc because that's
>  precisely the point of pkg-config.  boost.pc and boost-signals.pc and
>  boost-regex.pc are all fine.
Sure boost has to provide these files. The current situation is
unbearable.

Regards Andreas Pokorny