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On 28/11/12 08:26 PM, Richard Yao wrote: |
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> On 11/28/2012 05:21 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:49:14 +0100 Justin <jlec@g.o> |
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>> wrote: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> |
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>>> and another one. |
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>>> |
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>>> Problem: Some packages aren't lucky and their buildsystem |
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>>> doesn't create pkg-config files out of the box. |
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>>> |
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>>> Solution: Create them by hand. |
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>> |
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>> Result: packages which fail to build on distributions other than |
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>> Gentoo because their authors were using Gentoo and didn't knew |
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>> that the pkg-config aren't anywhere else. |
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> |
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> I suspect that the .pc files would probably be available if people |
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> installed -dev packages. If not, people can blame the distribution |
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> developers for breaking things. |
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They wouldn't be if upstream doesn't provide them and only Gentoo did, |
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which is what this eclass would be for.. Standard rules of |
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development, if the lib doesn't provide a .pc file then you can't use |
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pkg-config to configure your software for it. There's no point in |
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providing a .pc file if nothing is going to use it, and we (gentoo |
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developers) definitely do not want to end up patching and maintaining |
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patches on both a lib and all its rdeps just so that it support pkgconfig. |
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(i came across this situation already and learned a bit the hard way |
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with spidermonkey. It sucked to have to use checks for filenames and |
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special defines in header files to find the right libs, but that was |
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still the only "right" way to do it until spidermonkey upstream |
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finally started bundling a .pc) |
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