On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 10:04:55PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 8:50 AM Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 9:47 AM Tomasz Kłoczko <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 20:09, Rex Dieter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [..] > > >> > > >> The work required to fix packages affected by this disadvantage > > >> (potentially) far outweighs any advantage > > > > > > > > > Bollocks .. just sed/perl oneliner which will add BuildRequires: > > > pkgconfig if in package is used any "BuildRequires: pkgconfig(<foo>) and > > > remove from rpm dependencies autogenerator add "Requires: pkgconfig" if > > > package has any on the list any pkgconfig file -> rebuild all affected > > > packages. > > > It should take ~1h for someone with proven packager priviledges. > > > > > > > Note that removing /usr/bin/pkg-config from the build environment also > > stops pkgconfig() Provides/Requires from being generated. > > Indeed, synthesizing pkgconfig() entries based on the presence of .pc > files is not necessarily sufficient enough. .pc files can define > aliases using their own Provides rules. The information is best > generated by using pkgconf to dump the dependency graph. > > Similarly, the requirements may as well be generated by using pkgconf > instead of trying to parse the .pc files with grep and sed itself as > the syntax is not necessarily consistent. Many of the 'hotfix' > releases in pkgconf involved mitigating problems where our parser > would get confused by unexpected data in .pc files.
Let me stop you right there: the generator we have (/usr/lib/rpm/pkgconfigdeps.sh) uses /usr/bin/pkg-config (which is now actually a compat interface provided by /usr/bin/pkgconf) already. grep and sed are not involved. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
