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From:	Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To:	gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject:	[gentoo-dev] Minor change in pkg-config behavior, starting with 0.28, late heads up for maintainers
Date:	Fri, 29 Mar 2013 06:32:26
Message-Id:	`5155351A.3070906@gentoo.org`

1	This is from Fedora Devel Mailing List. I found it to be news worthy
2	also for Gentoo maintainers. So here it is:
3
4	<snip>
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6	Remi Collet Fedora at FamilleCollet.com
7	Thu Mar 28 10:39:52 UTC 2013
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9	Previous versions
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11	$ echo "==$(pkg-config --cflags-only-I openssl)=="
12	== ==
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14	New version
15	$ echo "==$(pkg-config --cflags-only-I openssl)=="
16	====
17
18	This space to empty string output can breaks some poorly written
19	autoconf script.
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23	Remi.
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26	P.S.1: I hope it could helps some packager...
27	avoid losing too much time on this...
28	P.S.2: example of broken script
29	http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=640e72ce91d8e591b92cd93c18d1bfe3befe3424
30
31	</snip>

Subject	Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Minor change in pkg-config behavior, starting with 0.28, late heads up for maintainers	Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Minor change in pkg-config behavior, starting with 0.28, late heads up for maintainers	Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>