On 2/10/12 12:20 PM, David Brownlee wrote:
On 9 February 2012 20:43, Julio Merino<jmmv%julipedia.org@localhost> wrote: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...
pkgsrc knows what the appropriate CFLAGS and LIBS values for every of the required libraries are based on the various BUILDLINK_* variables. You can easily feed those into configure to avoid the calls to pkg-config, and thus suppress the circular dependency.