a patch for proj4 pkg-config support about proj

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Comment by warmerdam on 21 Aug 2008 19:55 UTC
I'm afraid I don't understand what pkg-config is exactly, nor what the above changes do. Generally I have found it is not good to include packaging stuff for particular system (ie. rpm, deb) in the distribution because it is not kept up to date properly.

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Comment by frankie on 3 Jun 2009 09:22 UTC
Replying to warmerdam:

I'm afraid I don't understand what pkg-config is exactly, nor what the above changes do. Generally I have found it is not good to include packaging stuff for particular system (ie. rpm, deb) in the distribution because it is not kept up to date properly.

Just for note, a pkg-config file would allow using the pkg-config to provide information a la gdal-config with a simplified/standard interfaces for programs without the need to write a shell/python what-else script for that.

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Comment by des on 1 Dec 2009 15:47 UTC
Replying to warmerdam:

I'm afraid I don't understand what pkg-config is exactly, nor what the above changes do. Generally I have found it is not good to include packaging stuff for particular system (ie. rpm, deb) in the distribution because it is not kept up to date properly.

pkg-config is an OS-independent tool used to register a library and record important information about it, such as the installed version and the correct compiler and linker flags to use when compiling code that uses it. It is widely used in the GNU world and well integrated with the GNU autotools, and requires minimal effort on the part of the library author.

See [http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/] for more information.

183's patch is fine, except that the second hunk (Makefile.am) is reversed.

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Comment by booo on 23 Jul 2011 09:49 UTC
I fixed the patch and tested it a bit. Would be nice if you could apply this patch as it makes life easier ;)

Thx for you work!

Regards
Philipp

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Comment by warmerdam on 23 Jul 2011 17:23 UTC
Well, I'm still a bit vague on the utility of this, but I have applied it in trunk (2f0f94d (SVN rev2072)). Let me know if I botched it.

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Attachment added by 183 on 26 May 2008 08:58 UTC
https://trac.osgeo.org/proj/attachment/ticket/3/support-for-pkg-config.patch

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Attachment added by booo on 23 Jul 2011 09:46 UTC
https://trac.osgeo.org/proj/attachment/ticket/3/pkg-config.patch