Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/133
On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 at 06:28:44 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > If AM_PATH_GTK_3_0 was using PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG or even > PKG_CHECK_MODULES, this problem would have gone away entirely. Is there > a reason for not using these macros? AM_PATH_GTK_3_0 is itself deprecated in favour of PKG_CHECK_MODULES (officially since 2014, but its removal was already proposed in 2011). I assume that the more-correct pkg-config macros were either unavailable or not widely known at the time this macro was written. Deprecation: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641638 as a result of a previous bug in this macro that caused FTBFS when pkg-config's behaviour changed: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756476 I thought GLib might have the same bug, but it turns out to have been fixed in 2007: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392636 GTK 2 also has this bug (but worse, because it hard-codes pkg-config in one place where GTK 3 correctly uses $PKG_CONFIG). smcv
