Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:29:58
Message-Id: 4F9DCEBF.9050306@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives by Mike Frysinger
1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
2 Hash: SHA1
3
4 On 29/04/12 15:11, Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg-
6 > config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee.
7 >
8 > for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable a
9 > lighter alternative for embedded/alternative systems. as such, i'd like to
10 > introduce a virtual/pkgconfig that allows for selection of simpler (but
11 > compatible) implementations.
12 >
13 > we've got an implementation in perl (i'm not interested in), but there is also
14 > "pkg-config-lite" and "pkgconf". they should be compatible with the canonical
15 > pkg-config. they aren't yet in the tree, but will be once we agree on this
16 > topic.
17 >
18 > any comments ?
19
20 Please do now =)
21
22 lu
23
24 - --
25
26 Luca Barbato
27 Gentoo/linux
28 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
29
30 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
31 Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux)
32 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
33
34 iEYEARECAAYFAk+dzr8ACgkQ6Ex4woTpDjSsqgCgjCgbMwaUcck/jmVcxeb0rJtn
35 sRYAoJTzVDx/3ScZMi3gGqYUWgy3WFYc
36 =Ia4J
37 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu>