Ken Moffat wrote: > 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.
Yes, you are right about needing thought, but actually, glib cannot have pkg-config as a required dependency because now glib is a required dependency of pkg-config. Brilliant! -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
