Re: Transition proposal: pkg-config to pkgconf

2022-09-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] "Andrej Shadura" > Most importantly, I need a green light from the current pkg-config > maintainer (Tollef) to proceed with the plan. My interest in pkg-config has waned over the years (and so has the hours put into maintenance of it), so if you want to bring it forward, go ahead. Cheers, --

Re: Transition proposal: pkg-config to pkgconf

2022-08-31 Thread Andrej Shadura
Hi, On Wed, 31 Aug 2022, at 22:25, Simon McVittie wrote: > Beware that to be compatible with what pkg-config does (and what > PKG_CHECK_MODULES wants), the cross-tools need to be prefixed with a > GNU tuple, and *not* a multiarch tuple. So in particular for i386, you > will need to provide /usr/bi

Re: Transition proposal: pkg-config to pkgconf

2022-08-31 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 at 16:53:48 +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > The idea is that e.g. pkgconf:amd64 provides > /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-pkg-config, which is a symlink to pkgconf, > and /usr/share/pkgconfig/personality.d/x86_64-linux-gnu.personality, > which defines DefaultSearchPaths and SystemLibr

Re: Transition proposal: pkg-config to pkgconf

2022-08-31 Thread Wookey
On 2022-08-29 15:38 +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > Hi, > > It seems like the proposal went mostly unnoticed. Any comments, ideas, > anything? I have an interest as having been responsible for the pkg-config crosswrapper stuff some years ago, but have not been taking much notice recently. If eve

Re: Transition proposal: pkg-config to pkgconf

2022-08-31 Thread nick black
Andrej Shadura left as an exercise for the reader: > It seems like the proposal went mostly unnoticed. Any comments, ideas, > anything? fwiw, every time i've looked at a difference between the two, pkgconf was superior in every way. i've worked with the primary author, ariadne conill, on some Alp

Re: Transition proposal: pkg-config to pkgconf

2022-08-29 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2022-08-29 at 15:38:08 +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > It seems like the proposal went mostly unnoticed. Any comments, > ideas, anything? I at least read it, and it looked great. But… > Most importantly, I need a green light from the current pkg-config > maintainer (Tollef) to proceed

Transition proposal: pkg-config to pkgconf

2022-07-24 Thread Andrej Shadura
Hi, Following a discussion at DebConf, I’d like to officially propose a transition from pkg-config to pkgconf in Debian. pkgconf is a newer, actively maintained implementation of pkg-config that supports more aspects of the pkg-config file specification and provides a library interface that appli