On Sun, Nov 08, 2026 at 08:12:30AM -0700, Anthony J. Bentley 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.) Still, to close this out in my own head, here's a > diff.
Hmm no, debian Trixie has /usr/share/pkgconfig/bzip2.pc in the libbz2-dev package -- Matthieu Herrb
