Re: chonfigure and glib-config

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh at sharif dot edu>]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Chahine M. Hamila wrote:

> > as a subset to the autotools. Now, if
> > glib-config is being dropped, there is no sense in supporting it.
> 
> backward compatibility. E.g. systems like mine, where it's not
> installed yet;) Besides, I am not even sure pkg-config will end up in
> woody, as they didn't even put it in the testing section.

Many parts of Gnome 2 require pkg-config. Before that, you can't count on
any distribution having it (RedHat 7.1 does have an outdated version,
which doesn't work with latest glib). But after Gnome 2, every one will
have it...

roozbeh