pkgconfig bumpy?

[Auke Kok]

Chad Kittel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I thought i would shoot an email off to the ML here to see if there is
> a reason why we shouldn't upgrade the pkgconfig module.  We currently
> have 0.15.0, latest official one is 0.18.0.  However, I did some testing
> around and found 0.18.0 to be problematic on a few random modules where
> as the version prior to 0.18.0, 0.17.2 did not experience any
> troubles.  Though looking at it again, that could be due to me just not
> having the ENV variable set up right. (It looks like pkgconfig 0.18.0
> went from PKG_CONFIG_PATH to just PKG_CONFIG)
> 
> Anyhow, The reason for this is because I'm ran into an application that
> uses some autoconf stuff that needs features (scripts) found in the >=
> 0.17.0 release.  Looking around at other distros there seems to be a
> good mix of both 0.15.0 or 0.17.2 being shipped, and no 0.18.0.
> 
> I propose we bump the module to 0.17.2.  Thoughts?

sounds good but I would like to hear the same from one of the Xfce guys 
like Jasper... Jasper: have you seen this problem too or do you know 
this from others?

sofar