<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Steffen Planthaber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Steffen.Planthaber@dfki.de" target="_blank">Steffen.Planthaber@dfki.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I think loosing the ability to use the solver on all Operating Systems,<br>
just because one old LTS has no support for it is a bad option.<br>
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I agree a "virtual fork" by patching the CMakeLists.txt files of g2o<br>
itself in order to create a proper .pc file is a bad option, as they<br>
might change and cause trouble when out "old" patches are applied ;-)<br></blockquote><div>You don't understand my point</div><div><br></div><div>The proper way would be to patch CMakeLists.txt to provide a proper pkg-config file *and*, most importantly, to get this patch included upstream instead of having it sitting in the autoproj configuration.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We *are* forking g2o already as we have to maintain our own pkg-config file (and do a bad job at it, obviously)</div><div><br></div><div>Sylvain</div></div></div></div>