On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Piyush Parkash <achyutapiy...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen <t...@gnu.org> wrote: >> Good news: Hydra now is able to build the tarball, and to >> successfully "make" for various platforms: > > Great! > >> >> http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/libredwg-master >> >> The failures now come from "make check", which invokes >> pkg-config(1) to compute the flags to build program >> testsuite/xmlsuite/testsuite (from the corresponding .c) file. >> > > There is always something -_-. Looks like there going to be more. > `make check` is now under control of DejaGNU. It will never pass until > all the tests pass. > >> There are two reasonable solutions, i think: (a) make Hydra >> aware of pkg-config; (b) avoid pkg-config altogether. IMHO (b) >> is cleaner, since we can get the same information from program >> xml2-config(1), which is normally part of package libxml2-dev >> (on Debian, that is, YMMV), along w/ the library's headers. >> In sum, pkg-config is overkill; we don't need it. > > <snip> > >> a patch to make the configure script require xml2-config(1) >> and the testsuite/xmlsuite/ makefiles use it. I took the >> opportunity to use the "correct" Makefile.am var (AM_CPPFLAGS), >> as well. >> > > This looks good. But we will be always dependent on xml-config or > pkg-config. There should be a way to kill these?!
I think pkg-config is the right tool. Its good to be dependent on these tools so as to locate the libraries. For example, in some systems the glfw.h file ( OpenGL related file ) is in /usr/include/GL/glfw.h and some have it in /usr/include/GLFW.h. Mac has it in /usr/x11/include/GL/glfw.h I guess. So pkg-config takes care of finding the files and libraries hence avoiding manual efforts. -- Thanks Gaganjyot "Jai Sai Naath"
