Hi all, We have two problems with devel/pkg-config, the first one is hopefully now solved, the second one is in the slow way to be solved.
Let's first start with the first one: 1/ since 0.26 devel/pkg-config expects pkg-config and glib2 to be present to be able to built, and glib2 also depends on pkg-config, this prevent bootstrapping pkg-config and thus prevented us from upgrading devel/pkg-config to a newer version than 0.25. Hopefully some people decided to work on viable alternative, one of them being devel/pkgconf, which already have the feature set from 0.27 and is in active developpement. We just switched devel/pkg-config to devel/pkgconf for that reason (see UPDATING for instructions) Now the second problem. 2/ USE_GNOME= pkgconfig macro was the most used macro to pkg-config support to your port, problem is that macro pushed both run and build dependency. Which in most cases was wrong. More than that lots of ports do not even care about pkg-config because they do depend on glib20 or xproto which run depend on it. so fixing/changing USE_GNOME= pkgconfig cannot be done in one shot, too much impact. We introduced a new macro deprecating USE_GOME= pkgconfig: USE_PKGCONFIG which can take the following arguments: - yes (equivalent to build) - build - run - both So maintainers please convert your ports to using this macro, please be really careful while converting your ports that no ports rely on your ports having a run depends on pkg-config. (this will break package building on pointyhat and any package building for binary only users!) Please also check that if your ports actually needs pkgconfig or not and if it needs it explicitly add the dependency what ever the ports you depends on are having has a dependency. regards, Bapt
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