Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-05 Thread Jeff Horelick
I didn't mention this last night (probably because I was EXTREMELY tired), but the entire gentoo-x86 tree has been converted to the virtual (Y!!! *kermitflail*). As long as you don't use any overlays, you should now be able to switch your pkgconfig implementation to pkgconf[pkg-config] or

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-05 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/05/2012 09:02 PM, Jeff Horelick wrote: I didn't mention this last night (probably because I was EXTREMELY tired), but the entire gentoo-x86 tree has been converted to the virtual (Y!!! *kermitflail*). As long as you don't use any overlays, you should now be able to switch your

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-04 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 2 May 2012 12:06, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:11:58 Mike Frysinger wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs pkg- we've got an implementation in perl (i'm not interested in), but there is also pkg-config-lite and

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/30/2012 01:11 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable a lighter alternative for

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-04 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 04 May 2012 05:30:31 Jeff Horelick wrote: If anyone would like to help me converting random packages/categories, it would be GREATLY appreciated. This is difficult work and it has literally taken up almost all of my free time for the past 2 days or so, but I have well over half the

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-04 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 04 May 2012 05:43:55 Samuli Suominen wrote: =dev-util/pkgconfig- with USE=internal-glib in Portage. I'm hoping this will render the pkg-config-lite useless so we can drop it. I'm very much intrested in knowing if this matches the requirements for doing so, so I can decide

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-02 Thread heroxbd
Hi Mike, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org writes: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. any comments ? I would vote for it! I feel ill to bootstrap glib and pkg-config. It feels worse to call for

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-05-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:11:58 Mike Frysinger wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- we've got an implementation in perl (i'm not interested in), but there is also pkg-config-lite and pkgconf. they should be compatible with the canonical

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:08:34 -0400 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 30 April 2012 02:16, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:08:34 -0400 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: the canonical pkg-config is

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 30 April 2012 02:16:40 Michał Górny wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:08:34 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: I'd just like to say, i'm also an Atheme project member and I have authorisation from nenolod (the primary pkgconf developer)

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/30/2012 01:11 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable a lighter alternative for

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 30 April 2012 14:27, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 04/30/2012 01:11 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs pkg- config when building.  glib-2 requires pkg-config.  whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:11:58 -0400 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable a lighter

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/30/2012 10:07 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:11:58 -0400 Mike Frysingervap...@gentoo.org wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 30 April 2012 15:42:35 Samuli Suominen wrote: On 04/30/2012 10:07 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:11:58 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee.

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 30 April 2012 14:27:29 Samuli Suominen wrote: +1 for creating the virtual and migrating the tree to use virtual/pkgconfig. although, on the otherhand, you could just use package.provided for thesetype of unsupported experiments (like i'm doing with pkgconfig-openbsd) ok, with no one

[gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable a lighter alternative for embedded/alternative systems. as such, i'd like to introduce a

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs pkg- config when building.  glib-2 requires pkg-config.  whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal.  but we'd like to enable a lighter alternative

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Luca Barbato
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/04/12 15:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Richard Yao
On 04/29/12 19:29, Luca Barbato wrote: On 29/04/12 15:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable a

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 30 April 2012 00:08, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat.  it requires glib-2.  it runs pkg- config when building.  glib-2

Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

2012-04-29 Thread Luca Barbato
On 29/04/12 21:17, Jeff Horelick wrote: On 30 April 2012 00:08, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs