Re: [PATCH 2/3] libdrm_nouveau requires libdrm

[Julien C. <jcr...@de...>]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 13:38:59 -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Julien Cristau <jcr...@de...> wrote:
> > nouveau_drmif.h includes xf86drm.h.
> 
> If it's a source level dependency it should be a regular Requires: in
> the .pc.  Requires.private: is only for private libraries you link to
> but don't expose their API in your header files.  The idea is (AFAIK)
> that you can ask pkg-config to list all libraries to link to for
> static linking, in which case pkg-config needs a way to find all
> needed libraries.  It even looks like Requires.private has been
> obsoleted by Libs.private in recent pkg-config.
> 
That's not what the pkg-config maintainer says...

http://err.no/personal/blog/2008/Mar/25

Using Requires.private lets us get the necessary cflags, but avoids
linking to the library if not using --static.

Cheers,
Julien