pkgconfig bumpy?

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at lunar-linux.org
Sat Jul 2 17:29:45 UTC 2005


Op za, 02-07-2005 te 17:16 +0200, schreef Jasper Huijsmans:
...
> > > 
> > > 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?
> > 
> 
> There was a problem reported to the XFC list. I believe there is a
> problem with pkg-config > 0.15 where the behaviour of changed to no
> longer include flags for dependend libraries. This change may break many
> apps. For instance if you only depend on libxfcegui4 but not gtk, you
> may get link errors. I didn't check but I think that is the problem.
> 
> Some time ago I also read a blog comment by some GNOME dev that he fixed
> this in CVS. I don't think this fix has been released yet.
> 
> I'm a bit afraid that bumping this module will cause a lot of breakage.
> We could try and test a few xfce and gnome modules to see if it works.
> 

Ok, I just rebuild all xfce modules and there was no problem ;-) So, it
seems to work fine. Maybe a GNOME user could test some modules as well?

	Jasper



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