Re: pkg-config-0.26 depends on glib2

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 14 July 2011 18:08, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:19:00AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 16:00:37 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>> > > Fill a bug upstream and don't update. I don't see much point in that
>> > > anyway. Maybe it is time to write a clean C version of it...
>> >
>> > A clean, BSD licensed version of pkg-config in portable C without external
>> > dependencies (i.e. no glib) sounds reasonable to me.
>> > Apparently, after looking at the little amount of code pkg-config actually 
>> > is,
>> > and considering what it does (nothing terribly hard, it seems), this task 
>> > is
>> > probably not going to be terribly hard, even without glib.
>> >
>> > Was that what you had in mind?
>>
>> Is this one good enough?
>>
>> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg-config&sektion=1&format=html
>
> Look at the code.


(For anyone not inclined to run a quick search - its in perl)

So... who wants to implement pkg-config in lua? :)