pkgconfig bumpy?

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at lunar-linux.org
Sat Jul 2 17:35:14 UTC 2005


Op za, 02-07-2005 te 19:29 +0200, schreef Jasper Huijsmans:
> 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?
> 

Ehm, to be a bit clearer, this is with pkgconfig 0.17.2.

> 	Jasper
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