[PATCH:libXft] xft.pc.in: Requires.private entries should not be duplicated in Requires

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Wed Sep 22 08:45:22 PDT 2010


On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:35:02 -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote:

> The version 0.22 is in the time frame of Atoconf 2.60 and Automake 1.10,
> so it would perhaps
> be a good time to line-up pkg-config minimum requirements as well.
> 
> http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/
> 
IIRC Fedora had a broken patch for some time after that.  Not sure
if/when they dropped it.

> I am out of context here, but if Requires.private is useless, all it
> means is that the build will go on
> and break somewhere else if a dependency is missing. If no dependenciy
> is missing, no problems, I assume.
> 
The effect is you'll be missing -I/usr/include/freetype2 from
'pkg-config --cflags xft' and your software using Xft will stop
building.  Missing dependency or not.

Cheers,
Julien


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