[Libvisual-devel] pkg-config and library madness !

[salsaman <sal...@xs...>]

Hi,
I am testing libvisual 0.4.0. First thing I noticed is there is some 
kind of madness with pkg-config.

Now look, the idea of pkg-config is to make a package and its flags easy 
to find. It makes sense then to have livisual.pc.
It does not make any sense to have libvisual-<version>.pc

that is what pkg-config --modversion is for - to retrieve the pakage 
version !

What justification is there for having libvisual-<version>.pc ? It's 
hardly likely that a user would want to have multiple versions of 
libvisual on their system.

Please consider moving back to libvisual.pc


Also this version number madness has continued into the libraries, after 
installing 0.4.0 over 0.2.0 here is the mess I ended up with in /usr/lib:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    890 Mar 26 07:54 /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.la*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     22 Mar 26 07:54 /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so-> 
libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     22 Mar 26 07:54 /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0 
-> libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 689958 Mar 26 07:54 /usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0.0.0*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    868 Feb  1 21:45 /usr/lib/libvisual.la*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     18 Feb  1 21:45 /usr/lib/libvisual.so -> 
libvisual.so.0.0.0*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     18 Mar 20 11:49 /usr/lib/libvisual.so.0 -> 
libvisual.so.0.0.0*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 135496 Aug 22  2005 /usr/lib/libvisual.so.0.0.0*


More to follow...


Salsaman
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