Bug#989958: libopencv-*-dev: Missing pkg-config file (.pc)

[Jochen Sprickerhof]

* Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) <alx.manpages at gmail.com> [2021-06-21 17:35]:
>Maybe Debian could write separate pkg-config files, and maybe offer 
>them to upstream OpenCV (I offer myself to help write them if you 
>decide it's a good idea).

It's easier if you talk to upstream about this directly. Adding them to 
Debian only would be incompatible with other distros and be of limited 
use.

>Yes, for linking against the shared libraries, that's all you need: 
>link against the module you want.  BUT, if you want to try to link 
>against the static library (and now I'm talking from memory (it's been 
>a year since I tried to do that, and I don't remember the result, I 
>only remember a bunch of errors)), you'll need to know which libraries 
>you need, which is the magic of pkg-config.

Static linking should work fine without pkg-config as well, except that 
you would have to list all dependencies, but looking at the opencv4.pc I 
guess they are incomplete anyhow ;).

Cheers Jochen
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