Bug#375815: Dropping indirect dependencies from libgnutls-config --libs

2006-06-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: [making foo-config a wrapper around pkg-config] > If you started using pkg-config you'd have introduced a > build dependancy on a GPL'd program in a BSD licenced package, not > exactly a good idea. [...] That is something I hadn't thought about, gnutls is LGPL. Thank

Bug#375815: Dropping indirect dependencies from libgnutls-config --libs

2006-06-30 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 6/30/06, Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a reason why gnutls-config and xml2-config aren't just tiny wrappers around pkg-config for backwards compatibility? IMO, it's kinda silly to have each package provide its own -config script with its own set of bugs, rather than havi

Bug#375815: Dropping indirect dependencies from libgnutls-config --libs

2006-06-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Mike Hommey | On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:38:56PM +0200, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Hello, | > currently "libgnutls-config --libs"' output looks like this, | > -L/usr/lib -lgnutls -L/usr/lib -ltasn1 -lgcrypt -lgpg-error | > listing both direct (-lgnutls) and indirect depende

Bug#375815: Dropping indirect dependencies from libgnutls-config --libs

2006-06-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:38:56PM +0200, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > currently "libgnutls-config --libs"' output looks like this, > -L/usr/lib -lgnutls -L/usr/lib -ltasn1 -lgcrypt -lgpg-error > listing both direct (-lgnutls) and indirect dependencies. - Its output > can

Bug#375815: Dropping indirect dependencies from libgnutls-config --libs

2006-06-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, currently "libgnutls-config --libs"' output looks like this, -L/usr/lib -lgnutls -L/usr/lib -ltasn1 -lgcrypt -lgpg-error listing both direct (-lgnutls) and indirect dependencies. - Its output can be used for static linking. I am pondering (and have now been asked by bts) on changing this to