Daniel Richard G. wrote on Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 18:12:05 -0400:
> The problem, however, is that...
>
> $ grep ^dep /tmp/apr-build/_install/lib/libapr-1.la
> dependency_libs=' -lresolv -luuid -lsendfile -lrt -lsocket -lnsl
> -lpthread'
>
> $ grep ^Libs: /tmp/apr-build/_install/lib/pkgconfig/apr-1.pc
> Libs: -L${libdir} -lapr-${APR_MAJOR_VERSION} -lresolv -luuid -lsendfile
> -lrt -lsocket -lnsl -lpthread
>
> ...this dependency information is already contained in the Libtool and
> pkg-config metadata for libapr, yet Subversion's configure script is
> not using it. Setting LIBS should not be necessary.
So that would appear to be a bug in serf's pkg-config file, no?
Note that serf's build system was completely changed in 1.3. (You don't
mention which version of libserf you use?)
