Re: [Patch] add pkg-config file support

2013-03-09 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 05:50:31AM +0100, Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: If you are gentoo and you add patches like that, potentially breaking compatibility with other distributions and upstream, then you are simply doing it wrong. Feel free to discuss about it here Why would I?

Re: [Patch] add pkg-config file support

2013-03-09 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 01:12:21PM +0100, Luca Barbato lu_z...@gentoo.org wrote: Why would I? It's not my job to educate gentoo. They can break programs and make life harder for its users as much as they want. Had you spent enough time to follow the link you wouldn't have made an ass out

Re: [Patch] add pkg-config file support

2013-03-08 Thread Luca Barbato
On 07/03/13 05:41, Marc Lehmann wrote: If you are gentoo and you add patches like that, potentially breaking compatibility with other distributions and upstream, then you are simply doing it wrong. Feel free to discuss about it here https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411847 Note that

Re: [Patch] add pkg-config file support

2013-03-06 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:44:21PM +0800, Dennis Lan (dlan) dennis.y...@gmail.com wrote: this patch is floating downstream which try to add pkg-config file support, It's not clear what the advantage of such a patch would be. (or generally, pkg-config for a library like libev). It would

Re: [Patch] add pkg-config file support

2013-03-06 Thread Dennis Lan (dlan)
Hi Marc: It's quite obvious. With this patch, Any package depend on libev can use pkg-config to detect/check. Retrieve the cflags, libs, or other information (make life easier). Yes, it's a quite trivial patch, but useful. And It doesn't hurts? It would be great if can include...

Re: [Patch] add pkg-config file support

2013-03-06 Thread Dennis Lan (dlan)
HI Marc On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Marc Lehmann schm...@schmorp.de wrote: On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:44:21PM +0800, Dennis Lan (dlan) dennis.y...@gmail.com wrote: this patch is floating downstream which try to add pkg-config file support, It's not clear what the advantage of

Re: [Patch] add pkg-config file support

2013-03-06 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 01:26:54PM +0800, Dennis Lan (dlan) dennis.y...@gmail.com wrote: It's quite obvious. With this patch, Any package depend on libev can use pkg-config to detect/check. Why would a package that depends on libev wants to detect it, when it needs it anyway? Retrieve

Re: [Patch] add pkg-config file support

2013-03-06 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 01:48:41PM +0800, Dennis Lan (dlan) dennis.y...@gmail.com wrote: Note that fedora plans to rmeove the pkg-config file because it doesn't really improve anything (and they have an ethical upstream policy). also where do you get this info? From the new libev

Re: [Patch] add pkg-config file support

2013-03-06 Thread Yoran Heling
(I accidentally sent the below message directly to Dennis rather than to the list, so I'm sending it again for others to read. Sorry, Dennis, for the repeated message.) Hi, I'll voice my opinion on this as a user of libev and as someone who loves having his software work out of the box on all

[Patch] add pkg-config file support

2013-03-05 Thread Dennis Lan (dlan)
Hi ALL: this patch is floating downstream which try to add pkg-config file support, see bug here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411847 It would be great if you can include in, so we can carry less ;-) Thanks Dennis libev-pc.patch Description: Binary data