134204 - Provide pkgconfig metafiles

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Braden]

pkgconfig metafiles would make it much easier for autoconf-using projects that
depend on Mozilla to find Mozilla's headers and libraries.

Comment 1

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

Actually, I thought that's what the .m4 files were for.  I don't know anything
about pkgconfig much less how to create a metafile for it. 

Comment 2

[Braden]

FYI: The Old Way was for packages to provide an autoconf macro (in m4), often in
concert with a shell script, for checking the version of the installed package
(or whether it exists at all).

pkgconfig <http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/> consolidates this
logic for packages. By installing a metafile that includes things like
dependencies and compiler and linker flags, other packages can inspect the
system for a particular version of a package using generic autoconf macros
supplied by pkgconfig.

Typically these metafiles are generated by configure so that the installation
location of the package can be resolved.

Comment 3

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Yeah, pkgconfig is not the same as .m4 and is much cleaner.  It would be nice to
have them some time in the future.

Comment 4

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Attachment: add pkg-config files

This adds pkg-config files for mozilla.

Comment 5

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Havoc, can you have a quick once over of the pkg-config files in this bug before
I check it in?  They are short and sweet.

Chris, can you have a look at the Makefile.in changes?

Comment 6

[Havoc Pennington]

I'd make the Name field for GtkMozEmbed just "GtkMozEmbed" or something short
like that. Otherwise, looks pretty sane.

Comment 7

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 85051 [details] [diff] [review]
add pkg-config files

r=cls on the Makefile.in changes

Comment 8

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Files checked into the 1.0 branch.

Comment 9

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

The patch has been checked into the trunk.