On Saturday 2008-11-29 08:27, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 00:20 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: >> On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> > rpm's configure script cannot find nss/nspr even though these are >> > installed. As it turns out, configure.ac does not use nss/nspr's >> > pkg-config files >> >> Unless I'm mistaken, upstream nss and nspr do not ship pkgconfig files, >> they're distro additions and thus depending on them could be fragile. (I >> wonder if distro packagers haven't bothered to submit the *.pc they add >> upstream or if upstream has rejected them.) > >This patch is pointless.
Of course Ville is right that, as long as the .pc files (or nspr-config) is not upstream, inclusion does not make sense, but the patch clearly has a point, namely to have me NOT having to manually find nspr in the depths of my distribution myself, but let it do that automatically. _______________________________________________ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint
