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From: Richard Yao <ryao@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>, jlec@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:29:46
Message-Id: 50B6B9A8.8050402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass by "Michał Górny"
1 On 11/28/2012 05:21 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:49:14 +0100
3 > Justin <jlec@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Hi,
6 >>
7 >> and another one.
8 >>
9 >> Problem:
10 >> Some packages aren't lucky and their buildsystem doesn't create
11 >> pkg-config files out of the box.
12 >>
13 >> Solution:
14 >> Create them by hand.
15 >
16 > Result:
17 > packages which fail to build on distributions other than Gentoo because
18 > their authors were using Gentoo and didn't knew that the pkg-config
19 > aren't anywhere else.
20 >
21
22 I suspect that the .pc files would probably be available if people
23 installed -dev packages. If not, people can blame the distribution
24 developers for breaking things.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new eclass - pkgconfig.eclass Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>