[gecode-users] 3.1.0 : pkgconfig information missing

[Guido Tack]

Hi Martin,

we removed the pkgconfig stuff because it had very limited use.  It  
did not work with Windows dlls or Mac OS frameworks.  Even worse, as  
we didn't really use it ourselves, it often was out of sync with the  
actual distribution (e.g. libs missing).
On Linux, all that's necessary to compile and link is putting the  
installation directory on -I and -L paths, and linking the -lgecode...  
libraries.  The Gecode/FlatZinc distribution contains autoconf macros  
that check for Gecode, it's really easy (and if you do it right, it  
works on all platforms).

Cheers,
	Guido

Christian Schulte wrote:

> Martin, you have to haggle with Guido on that. He sits currently on  
> a plane
> bringing him back from down under... So, you'll need to be patient...
>
> Christian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at gecode.org [mailto:users-bounces at gecode.org] On  
> Behalf
> Of Martin Mann
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:54 PM
> To: gecode user list
> Subject: Re: [gecode-users] 3.1.0 : pkgconfig information missing
>
>
> I've seen you removed the pkgconfig stuff more or less completely from
> the 3.1.0 version..
>
> Any reason for that? I found it useful to check for the library  
> version
> etc. via pkgconfig and was able to do an easy configure based compiler
> and linker flag setup.
>
> Just to let you know: at least one user was happy about the pkgconfig
> information. ;)
>
> So long,
>
> Martin
>
>
> Martin Mann schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just encountered that in the current version (3.1.0) the pkgconfig
>> information is not installed into the "lib"-folder anymore. At  
>> least in
>> my setup when building only static and no shared libraries.
>>
>> After running "make install" only the libraries are placed in the  
>> final
>> folder but "pkgconfig" subfolder with the additional library  
>> information
>> is created.
>>
>> Please have a look if this is really a bug within the configure (was
>> working for 3.0.2). If not I can send further information on my
> build-setup.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>
> -- 
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> Bioinformatics - Inst. of Computer Science
> Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
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