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From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
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On Mar 02, 2006, at 12:28 , Marco van de Voort wrote:
> I think I'll have to update the compiler to parse pkgconfig files.  
> However I
> hesitate, since that makes the whole system a lot less transparent  
> for the
> user.

Why do you need to parse them when:

	pkg-config --cflags package
and	pkg-config --libs package

will do it for you?  That's the whole point of those .pc files

-aDe