Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

[Jeff Horelick]

On 30 April 2012 02:16, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:08:34 -0400
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote:
>> > On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
>> > > the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it
>> > > runs pkg- config when building.  glib-2 requires pkg-config.
>> > > whee.
>> > >
>> > > for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal.  but we'd like to
>> > > enable a lighter alternative for embedded/alternative systems.
>> > > as such, i'd like to introduce a virtual/pkgconfig that allows
>> > > for selection of simpler (but compatible) implementations.
>> > >
>> > > we've got an implementation in perl (i'm not interested in), but
>> > > there is also "pkg-config-lite" and "pkgconf".  they should be
>> > > compatible with the canonical pkg-config.  they aren't yet in the
>> > > tree, but will be once we agree on this topic.
>> > >
>> > > any comments ?
>> >
>> > I'd just like to say, i'm also an Atheme project member and I have
>> > authorisation from nenolod (the primary pkgconf developer) to make
>> > changes and stuff, so I can upstream any changes necessary to make
>> > pkgconf work for us.
>>
>> that sounds really good.  i sent you some patches ;).
>>
>> however, it's missing pkg.m4.  any thoughts on that ?
>
> Maybe we should provide it independently in some other package.
> Considering the implementations are supposed to be compatible, the .m4
> file should work fine with all of them. And we'll create same configure
> files independently of which impl particular user uses.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny

Well since the 3 primary implementations (fd.o pkg-config,
pkg-config-lite and pkgconf-0.2) now provide it, I don't see a huge
use for a seperate package. Also, the pkg.m4 used by all 3 seems to be
identical so...