Hi Eduardo,

> > Would it be okay to add --force-usb then which would skip that 
> > requirement? Most distributions ship with stock libusb that doesn't have 
> > libusb.pc, and it's not known when there will be a new version. Until 
> > then, you have to let people use and, more importantly, test USB 
> > functionality somehow, without forcing them to patch and recompile libusb.
> 
> I agree with Alexander. On my first suggestion I supposed that requiring
> pkg-config to build openobex would be acceptable. Please, don't beat me.  8)
> 
> What if we do something like:
> 
> # libusb doesn't support pkg-config on some versions, so don't
> # add the dependency if pkg-config doesn't know about libusb
> if pkg-config libusb;then  # or any other test that wouldn't break if 
> pkg-config isn't available
>       REQUIRES="$REQUIRES libusb"
> fi

this is changed in the CVS now and I would like if someone contact the
libusb upstream maintainer and ask him to fix it. We did way too much
talking now for something that should be fixed upstream.

> It seems that making a package pkg-config-aware but not depend on
> pkg-config isn't trivial.  :(

Actually it is not, because it is only a file.

Regards

Marcel




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