[icecast-dev] Re: [xiph-cvs] cvs commit: libshout HACKING configure.in

[HJ]

Its primary purpose is to keep track of *-config files (since
they're nearly identical anyway) so there aren't 1.5 billion of them
on your hard disk to get lost and so-forth.

It's an effort to keep things a little tidier, if just by a little
bit; I like it, I dunno.  :)

<p>WARNING :: UTTERLY STUPID EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW:

Consider, maybe

`sdl-config --libs` `ogg-config --libs` `vorbis-config --libs`
`theora-config --libs`

<p><p>With pkg-config, it's something like:

`pkg-config sdl --libs` `pkg-config ogg --libs` `pkg-config vorbis
--libs` `pkg-config theora --libs`

or

for x in ogg vorbis theora sdl
do
   pkg-config ${x} --exists
done

<p>instead of, maybe:

USR=/usr
#USR=/usr/local

if [ -f ${USR}/ogg-config ]; then
   echo yay
fi

if [ -f ${USR}/vorbis-config ]; then
   echo yay2
fi
if [ -f ${USR}/sdl-config ]; then
   echo yay3
fi
if [ -f ${USR}/theora-config ]; then
   echo yay4
fi

<p>Any *REAL* benefit?  Probably not.  Any cosmetic benefit?  Depends
on who you ask -- I think it's slightly more sane.

~HJ

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