[Gtk-sharp-list] [Patch, etc] minimal pkgconfig support

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On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 05:30, Mike Kestner wrote:
> gapi.pc should be fine.  We are installing a file in bin called gapi.pl,
> so if there are namespacing issues they will already be hitting us
> elsewhere.

No point in installing the script with a .pl suffix.

#!/usr/bin/perl at the start of the script means it will be interpreted
by perl regardless of the file extension.

> We need to rethink the granularity a bit.  Anyone else have any opinions
> on this?  Are we breaking ground and setting precedents here that the
> rest of the mono project should be consulted about?  Since pkg-config is
> primarily targetted at C projects, maybe we need to be considering
> cooking a different solution that works better for the C# realm?

pkg-config isn't suitable for this kind of use. We grilled this issue to
death on #mono a few months ago; the consensus is that the current setup
will have to suffice until the Global Assembly Cache is implemented.

We shouldn't ship a 1.0 version of either Mono or Gtk# with
architecture-independent dll files in /usr/lib either, for example. But
it's an acceptable compromise until the GAC is done. 

The GAC is a fairly complex suite of tools to manage .NET assembly
versioning and installation. Nevertheless, it should be straightforward
to build a simple GAC that installs and indexes assemblies somewhere in
/usr/share (the exact location should be further discussed, based on
LSB/FHS policy). Until this is done, it would be best to avoid the
introduction of ephemeral workarounds for a problem that will soon have
a proper solution.