Subject: Re: pkgconfig and buildlink
To: Johnny Lam <jlam@jgrind.org>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/20/2002 10:32:31
cool.  thanks for the help!

-Dan


On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Johnny Lam wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:14:37AM -0500, mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> > 
> [snip]
> > 
> > So maybe the thing to do is in the pkg-config buildlink.mk file, list
> > pkg-config as a build depends.  Then every package that is configured via
> > pkg-config pulls in the pkg-config buildlink.mk file in its own
> > buildlink.mk file.  I think this should properly propagate build depends
> > everywhere that needs it.  
> 
> This sounds good to me.
> 
> > Do you want to commit the pkg-config buildlink.mk file you send or shall
> > I?  Either way I can install it here and do some testing first.
> 
> I'll commit it and we can modify it as needed.  Your new packages are the
> only ones that will use it in the near future, so I don't see any problems
> arising.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@jgrind.org>
>