how to understand pkgconfig Requires: fields ?

[Daniel Stone]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:24:28PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> I'd like to ask someone to clarifies the Requires fields in the
> pkgconfig .pc files.
> Allow me to use lib/XprintUtil as an example.  Its pc file (see
> http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/XprintUtil/xprintutil.pc.in?view=markup) has:
> 
> Requires: x11 xt printproto
> Requires.private: x11 xp xt
> 
> What is the difference between Requires: and Requires.private:?
> 
> xp is the odd one out, needed only in .private. At which point does it need to be installed?

.private is required for static linking.

Cheers,
Daniel
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