Hi all, I've been looking at some odd build failures in Factory this evening and could mostly pint it down to very poorly written checks in configure. Look for example at: pkg="openssl" verssl=`(pkg-config --modversion $pkg) 2>/dev/null` if [[ "x$verssl" = "x" ]]; then pkg="libssl" verssl=`(pkg-config --modversion $pkg) 2>/dev/null` fi incssl=`(pkg-config --cflags $pkg) 2>/dev/null` libssl=`(pkg-config --libs $pkg) 2>/dev/null` if [[ "x$incssl" != "x" -a "x$libssl" != "x" ]]; then HAVE_OPENSSL=yes OPENSSL_VER="$verssl" OPENSSL_INC="$incssl" OPENSSL_LIB="$libssl" else verssl="no" fi It's visible that pkg-config --cflags $pkg can very well return empty, in case there are no special flags. the 'difference' between pkg-config 0.27 and 0.28 is that up to 0.27, there used to be a bogus space returned... which was fixed in 0.28; of course, now everybody will claim how bad it is to fix bugs which people rely on; this mail was not meant to start anything like this... merely as a heads-up if you run across similar weird checks... The only way forward is to fix the broken checks... Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org