On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 03:47:18PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Matijn Woudt wrote: > > > > Is there any reason why pkg-config is not listed as a dependency at libidl > > page? > > No. The page has just not been updated in 16 months. Evidently this is > the first time it's been noticed. Most people install pkg-config early > in BLFS, so it's an easy dependency for an editor to miss. > > -- Bruce Sixteen months ago, pkg-config was part of LFS. Going even further back (looking at 6.2.0 in the museum), pkg-config was identified as a required dependency for glib.
Now we work around that to build current pkg-config, so identifying where to add pkg-config as a required dependency will need some thought. It needs to be added only to those packages where it isn't already pulled in as a required dependency. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
