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From: Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Minor change in pkg-config behavior, starting with 0.28, late heads up for maintainers
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:45:19
Message-Id: 5156EC64.8010301@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Minor change in pkg-config behavior, starting with 0.28, late heads up for maintainers by Samuli Suominen
1 29.03.2013 10:30, Samuli Suominen пишет:
2 > This is from Fedora Devel Mailing List. I found it to be news worthy
3 > also for Gentoo maintainers. So here it is:
4 >
5 > <snip>
6 >
7 > Remi Collet Fedora at FamilleCollet.com
8 > Thu Mar 28 10:39:52 UTC 2013
9 >
10 > Previous versions
11 >
12 > $ echo "==$(pkg-config --cflags-only-I openssl)=="
13 > == ==
14 >
15 > New version
16 > $ echo "==$(pkg-config --cflags-only-I openssl)=="
17 > ====
18 >
19 > This space to empty string output can breaks some poorly written
20 > autoconf script.
21 >
22 >
23 >
24 > Remi.
25 >
26 >
27 > P.S.1: I hope it could helps some packager...
28 > avoid losing too much time on this...
29 > P.S.2: example of broken script
30 > http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=640e72ce91d8e591b92cd93c18d1bfe3befe3424
31 >
32 >
33 > </snip>
34 >
35
36 I have discovered this behaviour change due to resolving bug #455984,
37 where custom configure script was unaware of new pkgconfig.
38
39 --
40 Best regards, Sergey Popov
41 Gentoo Linux Developer
42 Desktop-effects project lead

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