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On 04/30/2012 01:11 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- |
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> 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 to |
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> introduce a virtual/pkgconfig that allows for selection of simpler (but |
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> compatible) implementations. |
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there are ones that try to be compatible, but are not. at this stage, |
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the virtual would only include dev-util/pkgconfig. |
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summarizing: |
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+1 for creating the virtual and migrating the tree to use |
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virtual/pkgconfig. although, on the otherhand, you could just use |
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package.provided for thesetype of unsupported experiments (like i'm |
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doing with pkgconfig-openbsd) |
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-1 for adding anything even slightly incompatible to the virtual |
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[1] pkgconf is not compatible as per Comment #5 of bug 413849. needs to |
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follow same version scheme as f.d.o's pkg-config. |
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[2] pkg-config-lite should be punted from tree as per bug 414101, |
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unnecessarily bundling glib code. there is no real problem with using |
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external glib. not liking it doesn't make it a problem. it's perfectly |
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bootstrappable and the bootstrapping is documented (plus ebuilds does |
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this for users so it's nothing you should even be thinking about...) |
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[3] pkgconfig-openbsd is incompatible in many ways, for example, doesn't |
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pass -pthread/-lpthread properly and breaks on -Wl,--as-needed systems. |
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take a wild guess why I didn't add virtual for this in the first place... |
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