On 29/04/12 21:17, Jeff Horelick wrote: > On 30 April 2012 00:08, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:40:00 Jeff Horelick wrote: >>> On 29 April 2012 18:11, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>> the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs >>>> pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. >>>> >>>> for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable a >>>> lighter alternative for embedded/alternative systems. as such, i'd like >>>> to introduce a virtual/pkgconfig that allows for selection of simpler >>>> (but compatible) implementations. >>>> >>>> we've got an implementation in perl (i'm not interested in), but there is >>>> also "pkg-config-lite" and "pkgconf". they should be compatible with >>>> the canonical pkg-config. they aren't yet in the tree, but will be once >>>> we agree on this topic. >>>> >>>> any comments ? >>> >>> I'd just like to say, i'm also an Atheme project member and I have >>> authorisation from nenolod (the primary pkgconf developer) to make >>> changes and stuff, so I can upstream any changes necessary to make >>> pkgconf work for us. >> >> that sounds really good. i sent you some patches ;). >> >> however, it's missing pkg.m4. any thoughts on that ? >> -mike > > The patches look pretty good. As far as the solution for pkg.m4...I > just gave it a second look and noticed it's GPLv2+ which means the > license is compatible with pkgconf's (I thought it was GPLv3, which > would've meant it wasn't compatible)...We'll work on getting those > patches and the pkg.m4 in the tree and getting a 0.2 release rolled > out in the next day or 2.
I just sent a couple of patches to pkg-config to update the m4 with some additional macros to provide stock --with-foo, I guess they will be useful for you as well, if you import it before I can send you the same patchset. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
