https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9457

Howard Chu hyc@openldap.org changed:

What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Howard Chu hyc@openldap.org --- (In reply to Ryan Schmidt from comment #0)

Please add a pkg-config .pc file for lmdb.

A MacPorts user requested that MacPorts add such a file, since apparently many Linux distributions have done so:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/60188

I declined to do so on the basis that it is not our job at MacPorts to do that; it should be done by the upstream software developers.

I recommend you survey popular Linux distributions and find out what pkg-config .pc file(s) they are installing for lmdb and integrate the most popular version into your source code.

We don't use pkg-config. We provide source code, not packages.

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9457

--- Comment #3 from Howard Chu hyc@openldap.org --- (In reply to Ryan Schmidt from comment #2)

I'm not asking you to use pkg-config, I'm asking for you to install a pkg-config file when lmdb is installed so that other software that wants to find lmdb can do so using pkg-config.

Bundling a pkg-config file would mean agreeing to support it. We don't support tools we don't use.

It is meaningless in a source release. It is up to packagers/distros to decide how they want to package it. Thus it is up to packagers/distros to decide what should be in a pkg-config file.

This ticket is closed. This conversation is over.

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9457

--- Comment #5 from Howard Chu hyc@openldap.org --- (In reply to Ryan Schmidt from comment #4)

If you were my employee and you responded to a customer in the extremely rude way that you responded to me in this ticket, I would fire you immediately.

The Project policies are what they are. Open source projects don't have employees. Get over yourself.