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On 29/04/12 21:17, Jeff Horelick wrote: |
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> On 30 April 2012 00:08, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: |
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>>> On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs |
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>>>> pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. |
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>>>> for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable a |
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>>>> lighter alternative for embedded/alternative systems. as such, i'd like |
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>>>> to introduce a virtual/pkgconfig that allows for selection of simpler |
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>>>> (but compatible) implementations. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> we've got an implementation in perl (i'm not interested in), but there is |
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>>>> also "pkg-config-lite" and "pkgconf". they should be compatible with |
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>>>> the canonical pkg-config. they aren't yet in the tree, but will be once |
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>>>> we agree on this topic. |
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>>>> any comments ? |
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>>> |
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>>> I'd just like to say, i'm also an Atheme project member and I have |
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>>> authorisation from nenolod (the primary pkgconf developer) to make |
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>>> changes and stuff, so I can upstream any changes necessary to make |
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>>> pkgconf work for us. |
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>> that sounds really good. i sent you some patches ;). |
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>> however, it's missing pkg.m4. any thoughts on that ? |
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>> -mike |
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> The patches look pretty good. As far as the solution for pkg.m4...I |
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> just gave it a second look and noticed it's GPLv2+ which means the |
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> license is compatible with pkgconf's (I thought it was GPLv3, which |
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> would've meant it wasn't compatible)...We'll work on getting those |
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> patches and the pkg.m4 in the tree and getting a 0.2 release rolled |
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> out in the next day or 2. |
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I just sent a couple of patches to pkg-config to update the m4 with some |
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additional macros to provide stock --with-foo, I guess they will be |
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useful for you as well, if you import it before I can send you the same |
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patchset. |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo/linux |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |