A pkg-config file for OpenJDK

[dalibor topic]

On 04.08.2014 10:41, Mario Torre wrote:
> If compact profiles are an issue, I would say that OpenJDK should ship
> with a pkg-config for each of the profiles.

OK, now let's assume that multiple profiles are installed in parallel. ;)

Or, for a not too unusual setup, that multiple JDK/JRE versions are 
installed in parallel.

How does pkg-config pick the 'right' one to link against? Does the first 
one to install the OpenJDK .pc file win? The last one? Does one need a 
different .pc file for each major version? For each minor version?

If I'm parsing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740762#c27 
right it seems that the design of the feature in the context of Fedora 
is still under discussion.

> The whole point of pkg-config is to not worry about where things are
> installed and what the linking/flags options are, you only need to know
> the package name, which should be standard across distros.

OpenJDK 8u typically gets packaged as "openjdk-8" on Debian derived 
distributions, "java-1.8.0-openjdk" on Fedora derived ones, and 
presumably something else somewhere else.

In addition, the distributions tend to split OpenJDK packages in 
different ways - See

     java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility
     java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo
     java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel
     java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless
     java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc
     java-1.8.0-openjdk-src

vs.

     openjdk-8-dbg
     openjdk-8-demo
     openjdk-8-doc
     openjdk-8-jdk
     openjdk-8-jre
     openjdk-8-jre-headless
     openjdk-8-jre-jamvm
     openjdk-8-jre-zero
     openjdk-8-source

for a Fedora vs. Debian comparison.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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