Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (140 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le jeudi 12 janvier 2012, à 09:16 +0100, Adrian Schröter a écrit :
> 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.

You missed the point: we don't need pkg-config to build glib2 as you
point out, and it's already fixed in my local checkout. But packages
that are needed to build glib2 depend on pkg-config. Hence the loop.

Vincent

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