Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (140 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

Am Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2012, 08:39:32 schrieb Vincent Untz:
> Hi,
>
> A while ago, pkg-config 0.26 got released and the main change in there
> is that it depends on an external glib (instead of an internal copy).
>
> We can easily drop the pkg-config BuildRequires in glib by setting some
> environment variable so that glib knows how to use pcre & friends. (Of
> course, we lose the automatic pkgconfig() Provides/Requires, but okay,
> let's ignore that).
>
> However, things get ugly:
>
>  + if we want glib2 to build with the external pcre library, we need
>    pcre-devel to be installed
>
>  + pcre-devel has a Requires for /usr/bin/pkg-config, and hence on the
>    pkg-config package (automatically added at the same time as the
>    pkgconfig() Provides, I guess)

I think the easiest would be to change the detection to work also without
pkg-config to avoid the loop ... Or even hardcode the pcre support via a
patch, because we can ensure that the right one is installed via a versioned
BuildRequires.


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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH
email: adrian@xxxxxxx

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