On 02/22/2013 12:08 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: > > 2. Recent "pkg-config" has a cyclic requirement of "glib", explained in the > README [1]: > pkg-config depends on glib. Note that glib build-depends on pkg-config, > but you can just set the corresponding environment variables (ZLIB_LIBS, > ZLIB_CFLAGS are the only needed ones when this is written) to build it. > > If this requirement is too cumbersome, a bundled copy of a recent glib > stable release is included. Pass --with-internal-glib to configure to > use this copy. > I think this explanation should go in the commit message of the second patch, as it makes clear why such patch is needed.
> The second patch adds this "--with-internal-glib" flag when configuring > pkg-config . > > Sadly, autotools-install still doesn't complete, because gettext0.18.1 > fails to compile with stpncpy() related problem (exactly as solved in > coreutils [2]) but that's is not a coreutil bug. > Is the issue still present with the latest gettext version (1.18.2)? If not, you could update the '$tarballs' definition to point to that instead. Also, I see that the Automake version referenced by '$tarballs' is still 1.12.3; I think it should be updated to the latest available version (1.13.2 at the moment of writing). > -gordon > > [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pkg-config/tree/README?id=pkg-config-0.27.1 > [2] http://bugs.gnu.org/13495 > Thanks, Stefano
