On 06/06/2013 06:08 PM, Armin K. wrote: > On 06/06/2013 06:02 PM, Igor Živković wrote: >> On 06/06/2013 05:53 PM, Armin K. wrote: >>> On 06/06/2013 05:44 PM, Igor Živković wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm aware of dependency chain. If the big red note on Harfbuzz page is >>>> not enough we can simply add GLib to Pango's required dependencies. >>>> >>>> Is there any other setup I should be aware of before I continue with >>>> editing? >>>> >>> >>> I forgot to note that dependency chain only applies to the Required >>> dependencies. On the Harfbuzz page, GLib is recommended. And GLib is >>> required for Cairo for libcairo-gobject.so library. >> >> Ok, since libcairo-gobject.so is optional and GObject Introspection >> requires GLib, do you agree to move GLib to Pango's required dependencies? >> > > As I said in the commit message - the package might optionaly depend on > something, but in our setup that optional dep is required - not without > a reason. > > $ ldd /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so | grep cairo > libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xb7181000) > libcairo-gobject.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo-gobject.so.2 (0xb702b000) > libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb6ef3000) >
That should be noted in the book, the same way we note if gobject-introspection is required for GNOME. IMHO, it's just not correct to state that something is required with no explanation to the reader. I was under impression that LFS/BLFS is an instruction manual and not a distro. -- Igor Živković -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
