Re: pkg-config-0.26

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

On 9 February 2012 20:43, Julio Merino <jmmv%julipedia.org@localhost> wrote:
> On 2/9/12 3:39 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 03:01:08PM -0500, Julio Merino wrote:
>>>
>>> On 1/24/12 9:05 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:47:28PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's an update for pkg-config to 0.26, the version where it switched
>>>>
>>>> >from its internal copy of glib1 to depending on glib2. (Incidentally,
>>>>>
>>>>> this reduces the executable size from 95KB to 52KB.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My objection stands. I still don't see any point in adding such a huge
>>>> dependency.
>>>
>>>
>>> Huh?  pkg-config has *always* used glib.  The only difference is
>>> that glib used to be bundled into the distfile, and now it's an
>>> external dependency.
>>>
>>> What's the real problem again?
>>
>>
>> pkg-config is self-contained. Given how central in the dependency tree
>> it is, that's quite important. More so since there are quite a few
>> things that don't otherwise pull in anything gnome related that would
>> now be force to.
>
>
> So again, what's the problem?  glib is as much gnome as it is kde or irssi.

I believe the issue is glib2 uses pkg-config to build, therefore
updating pkg-config to a version which uses glib2 provides interesting
opportunities for recursion...