On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 12:42:19AM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:38:29 +0100 > Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > Thanks. I was starting from the belief that people know it can be built without pkgconfig, because we had shown them how. But you are right. I've marked similar things as required in the past, so I'll change it to *required*.
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