Ken Moffat wrote: > Now that pkg-config is returning to the LFS book, it's time to > consider how we deal with people using the current and previous LFS > releases (i.e. 7.1 and 7.0) which are without it. > > I'll begin by suggesting that, transitionally and for an > indeterminate period, we should keep it in BLFS, but with a big NOTE > at the top, e.g. > > "Pkg-config is part of LFS, but was omitted from the 7.0 and 7.1 > releases. If you are using a system which includes it, there is > nothing more to do. If not, you should follow these instructions." > > And eventually, once we think new users will no longer be building > fresh 7.0 or 7.1 systems, we can retire the page. I've stressed new > users because I assume anyone using svn versions of LFS knows what > they are doing.
I think that's fine, and the same message for popt. > Alternatively, we could point people to the development version of > LFS with a different NOTE, e.g. > > "If you are using an LFS system without pkg-config (the 7.0 and 7.1 > releases), please follow the instructions in the development LFS > book at http://..."; > > For that, we could reduce the page to 'Introduction to pkg-config' > with the description of what it is, and the note. I suppose we > should drop the version in the BLFS page if we take this option. > > Does either version of this sound useful ? If so, any better > wording ? Just adding to LFS-SVN is sufficient IMO. > Reverting the pkg-config/glib dependency changes is another matter. I do think that BLFS pkg-config should use the same version of as LFS-svn. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
