Subject: Re: pkg-config files
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: tech-x11
Date: 10/26/2003 14:41:27
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Patrick Welche wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 02:10:29PM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> ..
> > Now, if you're saying the out-of-the-box builds don't do it, then that
> > would be "because they're broken". They can get away with it, because
> > many of your ELF early adopters in Open Source evidently land punted
> > on the details, providing a fully populated "ld.so.conf" by default,
> > whereas NetBSD does not.
>
> OK - so maybe you could apply that last patch to our xsrc, so that it is
> in as good a state as pkgsrc :) Yes, I am complaining about "out-of-the-box",
> but wondered if I was missing something..

Done. Actually, glib-2.0 does it out-of-the-box, so it looks like the
world may yet catch up.

Frederick