On 07/20/2012 12:15, Julien Laffaye wrote: > On 7/20/2012 9:03 PM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Julien Laffaye <jlaff...@freebsd.org> >> wrote: >>> On 7/20/2012 8:36 PM, Reko Turja wrote: >>>>> Its use is not limited to Gnome, as you can see it's used in the build >>>>> process of databases/sqlite3 and there are many other ports that have >>>>> nothing to do with Gnome that use it the same way. The only thing that >>>>> is wrong with it is that ends up being a run time dependency of >>>>> sqlite3 instead of being only a build time dependency. Maybe this >>>>> could be changed, anyone know if it's possible? >>>> >>>> Actually, sqlite3 builds and works quite fine with pkg-config >>>> dependency >>>> removed from makefile. So it's kinda silly to pull it in by force - of >>>> course it's not pkgng problem, but a problem in the port itself. >>> sqlite3 installs "/usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/sqlite3.pc". >>> So I think the rationale is if a developper wants to link against >>> sqlite3 >>> using the pkg-config file, he should have pkg-config on his machine. >>> If you go this way, you could also ask why sqlite3 install header files >>> which are not needed for the runtime dependency (when what is >>> required is >>> only the shared object)... >>> >> This could be handled by having pkg-config only as a build time >> dependency for sqlite3 and for any port that depends on it, pkg-config >> is a build time tool much like autoconf, automake, libtool etc. and is >> not needed to use the port at run time.
This is correct. > Yes it is needed at runtime if you are a developper using sqlite3 and > pkg-config: > to use `pkg-config sqlite3 --cflags` and `pkg-config sqlite3 --libs` in > your $APP build process. If you're developing a port, then the port needs to have a build dep on pkg-config. If you're developing your own stuff, then you need to install pkg-config as a build tool, just like you would (theoretically) install gmake, autoconf, etc. Run dependencies are for things that the installed package needs in order to *run*. Doug -- Change is hard. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"