[petsc-dev] remnants of pkg-config in BuildSystem?

[Jed Brown]

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>   Right, but since we are using MPI we live in the world where each
> compiler has a different ABI which pkg-config doesn't live in. That is why
> I say it is not a great model for us.


I've complained about pkg-config a lot, mostly because of this issue. I
think it's still useful for us because it finds static library dependencies
in a reliable way and avoids lots of failed links trying to probe these
things.
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