On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:54:12 +0000 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, but to be clear - are you saying gtk-doc won't use them > without pkg-config ? I don't know. The way I look at it, configure worked without pkgconfig so we can't say required but it definitely wanted to use pkgconfig so recommending pkgconfig makes sense. > 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. I'd just put pkgconfig as required and move on. I had a similar situation today with guile. It wanted libffi and wanted to use pkgconfig to find libffi. I could have written several paragraphs about how to set the libffi CFLAGS and so on, but pkgconfig requires libffi so making pkgconfig required made it all a lot simpler. Pkgconfig makes finding deps easier. I started working on a patch for Postfix to make it use pkgconfig but some of the deps (Cyrus-Sasl) don't install .pc files so I gave up. > 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. Sounds like a plan. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
