On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 09:22:46AM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Linking with '-levent' is deprecated. Perhaps with libevent 2.1, it's time > > for it to be removed? (the pkgconfig stuff will have to be updated as per > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=461325&aid=3435107&group_id=50884) > > I'd like to do it, but I'm worried about the hundreds of projects that > it would break -- namely, the ones that don't use pkgconfig.
I think it was this list that almost sold me on pkg-config. But then I tried to compile it for OS X. pkg-config has a circular dependency on glib. So the only way to compile pkg-config on OS X from scratch is to hack the glib build system, which isn't the simplest of chores. IIRC, the original pkg-config didn't have this dependency, but apparently someone thought it wise to remove the simple list implementation in pkg-config with a dependency on glib's list imlementation. Classic cargo cult phenomenon, I guess. I have half a mind to rewrite pkg-config from scratch, with zero dependencies (build or otherwie) and ideally in a single source file (C, or perhaps even awk). But then again, I don't actually use pkg-config for anything. Nor has any place I ever worked at. It's only used on vendor Linux systems, and the ports system for some BSDs. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
