On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaas...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We have two problems with devel/pkg-config, the first one is hopefully now >> solved, the second one is in the slow way to be solved. >> >> Let's first start with the first one: >> >> 1/ since 0.26 devel/pkg-config expects pkg-config and glib2 to be present to >> be >> able to built, and glib2 also depends on pkg-config, this prevent >> bootstrapping >> pkg-config and thus prevented us from upgrading devel/pkg-config to a newer >> version than 0.25. >> >> Hopefully some people decided to work on viable alternative, one of them >> being >> devel/pkgconf, which already have the feature set from 0.27 and is in active >> developpement. >> >> We just switched devel/pkg-config to devel/pkgconf for that reason (see >> UPDATING for instructions) >> >> Now the second problem. >> >> 2/ USE_GNOME= pkgconfig macro was the most used macro to pkg-config support >> to >> your port, problem is that macro pushed both run and build dependency. Which >> in >> most cases was wrong. >> >> More than that lots of ports do not even care about pkg-config because they >> do >> depend on glib20 or xproto which run depend on it. so fixing/changing >> USE_GNOME= >> pkgconfig cannot be done in one shot, too much impact. >> >> We introduced a new macro deprecating USE_GOME= pkgconfig: >> USE_PKGCONFIG which can take the following arguments: >> - yes (equivalent to build) >> - build >> - run >> - both >> >> So maintainers please convert your ports to using this macro, please be >> really >> careful while converting your ports that no ports rely on your ports having a >> run depends on pkg-config. (this will break package building on pointyhat and >> any package building for binary only users!) >> >> Please also check that if your ports actually needs pkgconfig or not and if >> it >> needs it explicitly add the dependency what ever the ports you depends on are >> having has a dependency. >> >> regards, >> Bapt > > Bapt, > > You may have noticed this already but the Makefile for devel/pkgconfig > is broken, it contains the same lines twice. > > Thank for the good work, > > Kimmo
Sorry, I meant of course the Makefile of the new devel/pkgconf :) _______________________________________________ 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"
