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Re: [PATCH] improve 'autotools-install'
From: |
Stefano Lattarini |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] improve 'autotools-install' |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:30:07 +0100 |
On 02/22/2013 12:08 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>
> 2. Recent "pkg-config" has a cyclic requirement of "glib", explained in the
> README [1]:
> pkg-config depends on glib. Note that glib build-depends on pkg-config,
> but you can just set the corresponding environment variables (ZLIB_LIBS,
> ZLIB_CFLAGS are the only needed ones when this is written) to build it.
>
> If this requirement is too cumbersome, a bundled copy of a recent glib
> stable release is included. Pass --with-internal-glib to configure to
> use this copy.
>
I think this explanation should go in the commit message of the second patch,
as it makes clear why such patch is needed.
> The second patch adds this "--with-internal-glib" flag when configuring
> pkg-config .
>
> Sadly, autotools-install still doesn't complete, because gettext0.18.1
> fails to compile with stpncpy() related problem (exactly as solved in
> coreutils [2]) but that's is not a coreutil bug.
>
Is the issue still present with the latest gettext version (1.18.2)? If not,
you could update the '$tarballs' definition to point to that instead.
Also, I see that the Automake version referenced by '$tarballs' is still
1.12.3; I think it should be updated to the latest available version
(1.13.2 at the moment of writing).
> -gordon
>
> [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pkg-config/tree/README?id=pkg-config-0.27.1
> [2] http://bugs.gnu.org/13495
>
Thanks,
Stefano