On November 8, 2026 9:12:30 AM CST, "Anthony J. Bentley" <[email protected]> wrote: >Based on a recent discussion... > >bzip2 doesn't come with a .pc file. The next bzip2 release would almost >certainly have one, but it's unlikely there will ever be a new release. >Not soon, at any rate. In the meantime, meson assumes pkg-config will >find libbz2 and tries to use cmake otherwise, which dies since we poison >cmake. > >This fixes my test case, misc/qman. But I think it might be a bad idea. >FreeBSD and Debian don't provide a .pc file. (I have no idea how they >satisfy meson.)
Not sure about FreeBSD, but Debian with its very extensive patching can not be considered a golden standard:-) Note that Homebrew does ship a .pc file for bzip2, see <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/580043d774c968cf7a9fa71088b72f09429b43b8/Formula/b/bzip2.rb> Just in case, Dima
