Generating those files is useful for users building the GStreamer stack
using meson and having to link it to another project which is still
using the autotools.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776810
Currently the .la path is provided which requires to use libtool as
mentioned in the GStreamer manual section-helloworld-compilerun.html.
It is fine as long as the application is built using libtool.
So currently it is not possible to compile a GStreamer application
within gst-uninstalled with CMake or other build system different
than autotools.
This patch allows to do the following in gst-uninstalled env:
gcc test.c -o test $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gstreamer-1.0 \
gstreamer-video-1.0)
Previously it required to prepend libtool --mode=link
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720778
When you use gstreamer uninstalled and build outside
the source tree, the includes need to be specified for
both the source tree and the build tree.
Signed-off-by: David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>