Re: pkg-config for Lua and Linux/BSD distributions divergence

["Leo Razoumov" <slonik.az@...>]

On 9/10/08, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > Please, do not drop lua.pc
>
> But aren't downstream packagers in a much better position to deliver lua.pc?
>  After all, they will know where and how Lua is installed. We can only guess.
>  I'd say that no downstream packager uses our lua.pc intact anyway.
>

IMHO Lua source distribution should be self contained and not rely on
distributors to fill in the gaps. For example, I always compile Lua
and LuaJIT myself and I know for a fact that some other people do the
same. Quite often developers install Lua in non-standard locations on
machines without root access. In many large organizations it is much
easier and faster to compile/install a package yourself in you home
directory than to convince an IT department to do "rpm -i" or
"apt-get".

For those do-it-yourself installations pkg-config and lua.pc serve as
a great tool to point build tools in right direction. BTW, editing
lua.pc is rather trivial from the sample provided.

--Leo--