Re: pkg-config-0.26

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

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 05:20:28PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> 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...

Hence

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667788

(Just need to add PCRE_REQUIRES to that patch...)


Cheers,

Patrick