On 1/15/13 6:53 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> I'll take another stab at providing pkg-config files for the client-side
>> libraries.
>
> This bit:
>
>> + echo 'Libs.private: $(filter-out $(PKG_CONFIG_REQUIRES_PRIVATE:lib%=-l%),$(filter-out -L..%, $(SHLIB_LINK)))' >>$@
>
> appears to assume that SHLIB_LINK contains nothing except -L and -l
> switches. I don't think I trust that a whole lot --- in fact, it
> looks guaranteed to fail on HPUX because of -print-libgcc-file-name.
> There might be other platform-specific bogosity on other platforms;
> PTHREAD_LIBS seems like a likely source for instance.
Updated patch addressing this concern. Also added comments and
documentation.