Package: pkg-config
Version: 0.26-1
Severity: wishlist
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pkg-config exits with zero exit code if one tries to query a variable that
doesn't exist. Consider the following example:
$ cat test.pc
Name: test
Description: test
Version: 1
$ pkg-config test.pc --variable=var; echo $?
0
It would be nice if pkg-config could exit with a non-zero exit code if the
variable doesn't exist. This could also be done with an extra option to not
break anything depending on the current behavior.
This request is motiviated by the following snippet:
In debian/rules:
override_dh_gencontrol:
echo "subst:var=var-$(shell pkg-config --variable=var pkg || echo '<error>')"
>> debian/pkg.substvars
dh_gencontrol
where ${subst:var} is used in Depends. If pkg-config failed with a non-zero exit
code, this would make dpkg-gencontrol fail since var-<error> is not a valid
package name.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (650, 'unstable'), (601, 'testing'), (600, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages pkg-config depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-27
ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-6
ii libpopt0 1.16-3
pkg-config recommends no packages.
pkg-config suggests no packages.
- -- no debconf information
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