Libraries and packaging problem

Claudio Matsuoka claudio at mandriva.com
Thu Mar 30 08:55:08 PST 2006


On Wednesday 29 March 2006 21:27, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> Yep, I've pointed that out before also.  IMHO, either:
> 
> - the pkg-config files provided by X.Org are broken and incorrect and
>    should be fixed to not have Requires.private
> or
> - pkg-config itself is a broken design that does not allow a way of
>    specifying dependencies properly in the manner that is necessary.

I was leaning towards the first case, but Ubuntu Dapper is doing it correctly 
with the same .pc files. I'll check if their pkgconfig is patched, or the 
explanation is elsewhere.


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