Installing pkg-config files for krb5

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 13:34 -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On 09/27/2012 05:14 AM, Stef Walter wrote:
> > Using krb5 would be that much easier if it installed pkg-config files.
> 
> I'm on board with this idea in principal, but I have some specific concerns.
> 
> First, you appear to be extracting some stuff from $CC_LINK, including
> -Wl,-R flags, to put into the Libs line.  I don't believe this is a
> common or recommended practice for pkg-config files.
> 
> Second, I think krb5.pc needs a Libs.private line containing
> -lkrb5support, for use with the --static option.
> 
> Third, I think most of the Requires lines should be Requires.private
> lines.  A GSSAPI application, for instance, should only link against
> -lgssapi_krb5 (when not doing static linking) since there's no
> expectation that it's also going to use libkrb5 or libk5crypto functions.
> 
> (I'm aware that krb5-config does not obey these constraints at all.
> "krb5-config --libs gssapi" outputs rpath flags as well as -lgssapi_krb5
> -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err.  But I don't think we need to be beholden
> to the behavior of our nonstandard config script.)

Ack, it would be nice to have the pkg-config do the 'right' thing
instead of merely mimicking the overly broad includes that krb5-config
provides today

Simo.

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