On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 12:59 AM Richard Purdie < richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-10-11 at 09:48 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > > Hello Andreas, > > > > thanks for the explanation, this s fine, but can you add it to the > > commit message so it's preserved in history? > > > > I'd say we do need to switch to a maintained implementation of > > pkgconfig, and align with regular distros on that, Ross, do you know > > if something's holding that back (other than the usual lack of > > time/people/patience with chasing corner cases etc). > > The two options have incompatible behaviour and it wasn't clear that > either have a good maintenance path last time we looked. Most software > is aligned with the version we have which is the standard. > There were some missing aspects w.r.t sysroot as well which is useful for cross compilation maybe that’s working now I haven’t looked at it for a long time > pkg-config is relatively stable, it doesn't change much and that is a > good thing due to the way it is used. The question is whether the "lack > of maintenance" is causing us a problem, I'm not sure it is. I suspect > we're better focusing on other areas. > > Cheers, > > Richard > > > >
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