Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] native pkgconf (was Tutorial buglet?)

[Tony Theodore]

On 14/08/2013, at 8:32 PM, Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> wrote:

> Tony Theodore schrieb:
>> 
>> On 14/08/2013, at 2:01 PM, Tony Theodore <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> What do you think about using pkgconf[1] instead? It's a minimal dependency 
>>> drop-in replacement used by FreeBSD and Gentoo - and from browsing the 
>>> code, looks like it would be easier to implement your Cflags.private 
>>> proposal.
>> 
>> I've copied the request from pkg-config to pkgconf along with a naive 
>> implementation - it works for the test suite but I'll try it on mxe to see 
>> how it goes with real-world *pc files:
>> 
>> https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf/pull/50

Cflags.private functionality is now merged:

https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf/commit/da179fd8cfadc2d6a64b7ef970231ce28dce741f

>> I don't mind using this before the proposed spec is finalised - the 
>> functionality mimics Libs.private and can't be very contentious, what could 
>> possibly go wrong?
> 
> I think that pkgconf is worth a try. If it works for
> whole operating systems / distributions like FreeBSD
> and Gentoo, it's also a good bet for MXE, I guess.

So far it's very promising, builds in seconds with minimal configuration and 
there's only one package (graphicsmagick) that needs adjusting (adding 
libtiff-4 to Requires.private). I think it's actually an issue with pkgconf, 
but haven't been able to reduce it to a minimal case yet (takes some 
combination of redundant Libs.private and multiple Requires.private lookups).

Cheers,

Tony