l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> John Darrington <j...@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> + (propagated-inputs
>> + `(("libxrender" ,libxrender))) ;; libxft refers to symbols in
>> libxrender,
>> + ;; so without it, applications cannot
>> be built.
>
> The only reasons I can think of where we may want to propagate are when:
>
> • installed C headers (or .scm, or Perl files, etc.) refer to headers
> of another library;
>
> • a .pc file lists another .pc in its ‘Requires’ field.
As we discussed on IRC, the reason is that xft.pc refers to ‘xrender’,
so I just put that in the comment.
Ludo’.
