On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 10:25:37PM +0000, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:39:09 +0000 > Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The following packages have glib2 as an optional dependency : qt4, > > gtk-doc, pulseaudio. > > > > I have no experience of trying to build any of these in the absence > > of pkg-config. I assume it would be painful (needing to specify LIBS > > and CFLAGS for everything), but I don't know. > > > > Any objection to recommending pkg-config for these three packages ? > > gtk-doc compiles fine without pkg-config but reading through the > configure script it does use pkg-config to find things like > gnome-doc-utils and glib-2.0. > > Andy
Thanks, but to be clear - are you saying gtk-doc won't use them without pkg-config ? I was feeling lazy. Pulse's configure fails to find LIBSNDFILE (which is required) and suggests adding pkg-config, or fixing the environment for pkg-config, or passing LIBSNDFILE_CFLAGS and LIBSNDFILE_LIBS, so the need is pretty obvious. Qt4 configures slightly differently if pkg-config is not available : it adds 'no-pkg-config' in the reported Configuration, QtDBus module changes from yes (run-time) to no, Glib support becomes no, similarly PulseAudio support and GTK theme support. This is with a so-called minimal configuration of QT, so perhaps the pact that GStreamer support is 'no' in either case is nothing to worry about (in fact, I normally build qt before gstreamer but this system where I'm running its configure now has all the gstreamer plugin variatiants). So, to me a 'Recommended' looks imminent. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
