[DRE-maint] Bug#560541: pkgconfig file in libsvm-dev? [was: Bug#560541: libsvm-ruby: FTBFS]

[Michael Schutte]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 09:27:44AM +0800, Chen-Tse Tsai wrote:
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
> This is because we think libsvm is only a simple library(one header and one
> library),
> also we want to keep it as simple as possible and as close to upstream as
> possible.
> If it causes too many inconvenience, I will consider to re-introduce it
> back.
> Thanks for your suggestion.

Ah, I see, so the pkgconfig file is a Debian-specific addition.  In this
case, the upstream version of libsvm-ruby also shouldn’t depend on the
libsvm.pc file being available.

I’d just go ahead and change libsvm-ruby’s extconf.rb to set $CFLAGS and
$LDFLAGS instead of using pkgconfig.  Rudi, what is your opinion as
Debian and upstream maintainer?

-- 
Michael Schutte <michi at uiae.at>
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