[MonoDevelop] Autotools plugin.

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> I think a better way to handle this type of situation would be to permit
> the creation of pc files for nested solutions. 
> 
> Say you have solution 'mylib'.  This solution contains all the non-gui
> projects (dlls).  A pc file would be created for these libs.  Then,
> within this solution, you could create another solution called
> 'mylib-gui'.  This would have all the gui libs, and another pc file
> would be created for this solution with 'mylib' in the 'Requires'
> variable.
> 
> This would give you some granularity without unneccessarily polluting
> pkgconfig with a pc for each individual dll.

This seems more complicated than just generating a new .pc file for each
DLL.   

What I would like to aim for is for good sensible defaults, something
that makes things work out of the box.  Our Unix development environment
is already too complicated as it is.

Miguel.