Taking this to -devel because it's a symtom of a general problem. Consider *not* replying to -gnome-core...
On fink-gnome-core, Mich?le Garoche wrote: > Compiling gimp2 after using buildfink makes it failed because of an > apparently missing dependency on xml-parser-pm586: > > checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl > configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool > ### execution of F77=no failed, exit code 1 > Failed: phase compiling: libgnomeprint2.2-2.6.2-9 failed intltool is pretty annoying because of this. The current best-practice is for any package that needs intltool to BuildDepends:intltool, even though it doesn't actually need that package, since the intltool package in each dist has Depends on the xml-parser-pmXXX matching the perlXXX that is /usr/bin/perl in that dist. OTOH, the AC_PROG_INTLTOOL macro really uses "first 'perl' in PATH". As a result, if the user has a /sw/bin/perl from a perlXXY package, the intltool placeholder pkg is bogus: the dep it gives is not needed and the dep that *is* needed is not specified. One can set INTLTOOL_PERL to a specific path in order to over-ride the PATH search, so perhaps a cleaner solution is to set that to /usr/bin/perl and then XXX in BuildDepends:xml-parser-pmXXX is not affected by perlXXY packages. Does endowing the intltool package with a RuntimeVars:INTLTOOL_PERL:/usr/bin/perl work as an improvement on our current best-practice? Or are we better off scrapping that approach and just setting it in each package directly and adding the BDep for the now-more-certain xml-parser-pmXXX? dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
