[Openal-devel] Some patches used in Debian openal-soft package

[Jason Daly]

Chris Robinson wrote:
> The *-config scripts are basically bash/sh scripts, that have a few things 
> replaced (version number, etc). I'm no expert with bash scripting, though. At 
> least, not to where I can fully grasp what the script is doing. If something 
> turns up broken in it, or not working as intended, it would be difficult for 
> me to fix it. And given that it's preferred to use pkg-config anyway, and 
> there's little-to-no use for openal-config, it doesn't seem worth it to 
> include.
>   

It's useful in the cases where the host system doesn't have pkg-config 
installed. 

If pkg-config is available, I agree it would be the preferred method.  
I'm not convinced it's a good idea to assume that pkg-config is 
installed on every machine that OpenAL might be installed on, though.

--"J"