On 04/30/2012 01:11 AM, Mike Frysinger 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.
there are ones that try to be compatible, but are not. at this stage,
the virtual would only include dev-util/pkgconfig.
summarizing:
+1 for creating the virtual and migrating the tree to use
virtual/pkgconfig. although, on the otherhand, you could just use
package.provided for thesetype of unsupported experiments (like i'm
doing with pkgconfig-openbsd)
-1 for adding anything even slightly incompatible to the virtual
[1] pkgconf is not compatible as per Comment #5 of bug 413849. needs to
follow same version scheme as f.d.o's pkg-config.
[2] pkg-config-lite should be punted from tree as per bug 414101,
unnecessarily bundling glib code. there is no real problem with using
external glib. not liking it doesn't make it a problem. it's perfectly
bootstrappable and the bootstrapping is documented (plus ebuilds does
this for users so it's nothing you should even be thinking about...)
[3] pkgconfig-openbsd is incompatible in many ways, for example, doesn't
pass -pthread/-lpthread properly and breaks on -Wl,--as-needed systems.
take a wild guess why I didn't add virtual for this in the first place...
