Bug#504220: Missing dependencies

Loïc Minier lool at dooz.org
Mon Nov 3 10:00:42 UTC 2008


On Mon, Nov 03, 2008, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> In the case of libavcodec, there are no includes to headers of libtheora
> and the like. libavcodec internally links against other libraries, but
> that is an implementation detail that potentially could change at any
> time [1].

 So requires.private doesn't pull any cflags, but pkg-config cannot tell
 for sure unless it looks at the .pc file.

> So in the end, for the case of *dynamic* linking gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
> against libavcodec, why should pkg-config care about this implementation
> detail?

 It might need to care, so make sure it can check. :)

-- 
Loïc Minier





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