PSARC/2008/071 - Including LCMS with Solaris

[Darren J Moffat]

Stefan Teleman wrote:
> 
> 
> James Carlson wrote:
> 
>> The output of pkgconfig itself isn't private; it's used by other
>> software to find this library.
>>
>> The file that is contributed by this library to make pkgconfig work is
>> private.  Nothing (other than pkgconfig itself) should be reaching
>> around into /usr/lib/pkgconfig directly.
> 
> PSARC 2004/049 [ openssl.pc for pkg-config ] established precedent for 
> pkg-config *.pc files as follows:
> 
> <QUOTE>
> The existance of the openssl.pc file is Stable, the contents are
> Unstable, the contents reference stuff declared as External in
> PSARC/2003/500.
> /QUOTE>

You missed the important part of that case where I explicitly mentioned 
precedent though:

"It is possible that this case sets some precedent with respect to
pkg-config(1) and External libraries. Though pkg-config(1) is itself
External and is in /usr/bin."

Note that since I didn't actually say "this case establishes precedent" 
it doesn't create a precedent.  I just highlighted in the intro that 
there maybe a desire to discuss precedent in the particular case of 
External interfaces - no such discussion happened in that case (in fact 
no discussion happened in that case at all).


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Darren J Moffat