Subject: Re: pkgconfig and buildlink
To: Johnny Lam <jlam@jgrind.org>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/20/2002 10:32:31
cool. thanks for the help!
-Dan
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Johnny Lam wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:14:37AM -0500, mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > So maybe the thing to do is in the pkg-config buildlink.mk file, list
> > pkg-config as a build depends. Then every package that is configured via
> > pkg-config pulls in the pkg-config buildlink.mk file in its own
> > buildlink.mk file. I think this should properly propagate build depends
> > everywhere that needs it.
>
> This sounds good to me.
>
> > Do you want to commit the pkg-config buildlink.mk file you send or shall
> > I? Either way I can install it here and do some testing first.
>
> I'll commit it and we can modify it as needed. Your new packages are the
> only ones that will use it in the near future, so I don't see any problems
> arising.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Johnny Lam <jlam@jgrind.org>
>