On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:23:00PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 09 décembre 2007 à 19:11 +0100, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : > > Just curing the symptoms instead of the problems will not help to get > > there any sooner.
> What if there is no problem? > For example, pkg-config --libs gtk+-x11-2.0 will return, among others, > -lglib-2.0 and -lm. And this is perfectly intentional. Just because it's intentional doesn't mean it isn't absurd and wrong. > The former is here because you can assume glib functions are available > when doing "#include <gtk/gtk.h>". The latter is here because some macros > need math functions. Still, many binaries using it don’t need glib, and > most of them don’t need libm. There is nothing that can be done to avoid > that, the only way is a check that removes the dependency if it isn’t > actually needed. No, what can be done is to fix upstream's broken declaration that 'you can assume glib functions are available when doing "#include <gtk/gtk.h>"'. It doesn't follow that just because this works in practice, it should be a supported usage. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
