On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:38:29 +0100 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> In March I fixed up the remaining packages which listed glib2 as a > requirement, so that they now list pkg-config. That was, of course, > for 0.26 which itself required glib2. > > Now that we have a better version of pkgconfig, those dependencies > are broken. Here's my first suggestion: > > Change glib2 to *recommend* pkgconfig, and therefore drop the > PCRE and LIBFFI overrides. We *could* list these as optional > commands, with an explanation of why there was a circular dependency > with the previous pkgconfig, but I'd rather just drop them. Recommend is fine but personally I'd put it under required. If Glib's configure script uses Pkg-config that makes it a required dep in my book. The Cflags and whatnot we used to use was an unusual measure to get around the circular dependency between Pkg-config and Glib. > Follow this by reverting the glib -> pkgconfig part of the changes > if the package is still 'live' in the book. In practice, I'll do > that by new changes. > > Anybody using the book after that will get the right deps. Sounds good. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
