Hi, On 2023-03-15 08:51:04 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > While comparing the .pc (pkg-config) files generated by the make and meson > builds, I noticed that the Requires.private entries use different > delimiters. The make build uses spaces, the meson build uses commas. The > pkg-config documentation says that it should be comma-separated, but > apparently about half the .pc in the wild use just spaces. > > The pkg-config source code acknowledges that both commas and spaces work: > > https://github.com/freedesktop/pkg-config/blob/master/parse.c#L273 > https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf/blob/master/libpkgconf/dependency.c#L286 > > I think for consistency we should change the make build to use commas > anyway. See attached patch.
Makes sense. Greetings, Andres Freund
