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On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 09:49 +0100, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:28:09AM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > A lot of these problems can be solved with 'preferred-gtk-2.8-versions.inc', but ideally
> > we'd want a way to get the gtk PV from inside other recipes (e.g. gtk-engines).
> > 
> > Does anyone have a good idea on how to handle all this?
> > 
> I just checked my gtk+-2.10.0 and gtk+-2.0.pc contans the following
> line.
> 
> gtk_binary_version=2.10.0
> 
> If this exists for all gtk+ we could parse ths file in install and set
> ${LIBV} with it.

It exists for 2.8.9 so this approach looks promising. Also note the
string is not PV as its 2.4.0 for 2.8.9 so whilst PV would provide some
help, it doesn't really solve this problem.

Cheers,

Richard