Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 6/4/12 3:06 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >>> I thought popt was already removed from pkg-config in git? If so, why >>> did we add it into the book now instead of at least applying Dan's patch >>> to remove that dependency? >> Other packages use popt. If it works (appears to be ok) and can be used >> by pkg-config, then we might as well do it. At least that's my conclusion. > > Heh, ok. I thought you were the one usually against adding anything > extra into LFS. :)
Generally I am, but this seemed like a reasonable thing to do. In this case it takes 7 seconds to build. > Personally, I don't think popt is all that useful. The standard C > library provides getopt which is sufficient for most needs. No other > current LFS package uses popt - how many packages in BLFS actually use popt? hd2u.xml: <para role="required"><xref linkend="popt"/></para> libbonobo.xml: <xref linkend="popt"/></para> libdv.xml: <para role="optional"><xref linkend="popt"/>, rsync.xml: <para role="optional"><xref linkend="popt"/>, samba3.xml: <para role="optional"><xref linkend="popt"/>, inkscape.xml: <xref linkend="popt"/>, You too can learn grep. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
