Re: pkg-config-0.26 depends on glib2

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 04:42:34PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 02:32:00PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > glib2-HEAD uses pkgconfig to look for:
> > - zlib
> > - libffi
> > - pcre
> > - dbus-1 (optional, just used in GDBus test case)
> 
> Some of which (libffi, dbus) also use pkg-config...

As I wrote above, dbus is optional (only if you want to try out the
test case - glib provides its own dbus interface, so definitely
doesn't need a dbus library.)

Neither zlib, libffi nor pcre use pkg-config. (They may provide .pc files,
that doesn't mean that they use it.)

> > So patching glib2 to not use pkgconfig might be an option?
> 
> We could pass in the configuration from the environment; but we'd have
> to do this for every package in the dependency chain.

It's a rather short "chain" - see above.

Cheers,

Patrick