[csw-maintainers] Including -R in pkg-config files

[Rafael Ostertag]

Hi Maciej

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 01:15:52PM +0000, Maciej (Matchek) Blizi??ski wrote:
> 2011/12/11 Rafael Ostertag <raos at opencsw.org>:
> > I got a bug report (http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/view.php?id=4437) where
> > there is a complain that 'pkg-config --libs' does not include the '-R' flag in
> > the output.
> >
> > Now, I would like to know the policy on this, i.e. do we adjust the .pc files
> > to include the -R flag or is it the user's (user as in somebody thirdparty
> > linking against our libs) responsibility to add it to the compiler flags? For
> > us, since we are using gar, this does not pose a problem, I guess.
> >
> > Any pointers on this greatly appreciated.
> 
> There's no policy on this that I know of. My gut feeling is that it
> makes sense to add the -R flag there. I see no obvious downsides, and
> it makes things works for downstream developers.
> 
> In our case, we keep all libs in /opt/csw/lib, so the -R/opt/csw/lib
> flag is there in all GAR builds anyway; but for a different reason. If
> you think of a downstream user, the lack of -R/opt/csw/lib means that
> any built binaries will be unable to find their libraries.
> 

I see your point there. But a grep on /opt/csw/lib/pkgconfig revelead that only
a few packages are employing the -R flag.

So, wouldn't it be a good idea to establish a policy on this ('we feature the
-R flag by default'), and create a checkpkg test, which softly enforces that
policy?

Have a nice weekend

--rafi