From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SOcMC-0007UW-Ij for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:12:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A078E05EB; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:12:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC75E0531 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:11:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FCDA1B400A for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:11:46 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:11:58 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.3.4; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart6662415.7EV7Aj2mLe"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201204291812.10559.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 0d5e9158-c0c4-48e2-9c14-d1c32c1c0d46 X-Archives-Hash: 5a6392265824e8aef37eb05e3869f8b9 --nextPart6662415.7EV7Aj2mLe Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable the canonical pkg-config is getting fat. it requires glib-2. it runs pkg- config when building. glib-2 requires pkg-config. whee. for our normal systems, this isn't a big deal. but we'd like to enable a=20 lighter alternative for embedded/alternative systems. as such, i'd like to= =20 introduce a virtual/pkgconfig that allows for selection of simpler (but=20 compatible) implementations. we've got an implementation in perl (i'm not interested in), but there is a= lso=20 "pkg-config-lite" and "pkgconf". they should be compatible with the canoni= cal=20 pkg-config. they aren't yet in the tree, but will be once we agree on this= =20 topic. any comments ? =2Dmike --nextPart6662415.7EV7Aj2mLe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJPnby6AAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBx80QAIaR+hkJVW0ewx5sybcXTk8n fwYAHrUGumNVJNRBQUyQzyzm3r4gw6f6Aq51KXE/l1vx+Aj6ggNwkTW7QrMF9HvX gHKSORZct1PCqAb2+ffBZkNbITi5cjU90L8DBIxY+u0SEeP2WnsMhJb3sHcXdLRy 6Yjgi9YzbUxrwrviIoaJ8t1R5DfhpAcFincAvXPxAvu6lcs1wJuGa3mCUyF0GzBv T9KDp9bpkyDQMXSkFxAxlF97ktWq9wVGRYdqcwJxaqjGdogNEX7h6JEjowC6dsUN LKwnxCFEZQK6DSOSRfMpmGX8D7IN462iqY1eKY3I5KsQrFcr6JfU8WOB0qHFUCvg Yg3AgKIqdkLLdObQHwBQY+v5QTz/nm3Q7t7JX/OKT39xFi35nqFSihQ9zd5x4pT1 YqfvJkRkSDPJbftIVj0Rw69jwKr7O2tFR/hn1fuK+ENkhEwp4E6h0z8YM0UgudQV hFU9cWXO6yrA0IUI1JRlJQpxYMTLfgGsvKkfVaRJ72Z9WsCf4+9ilzk6MOsbEeRT tDH8zuwMukjSm2lAu6ZzBwkXNEK1OcWhfom9vlVWvh75wEby7GDF9C9exhpWgRFQ /Mm3hmt+qn+V95RYA4DVORSv2hOGyyEFCEEjNwkM05qxYi1Ulkzzo2600EOI+pWk jLLC3YGVN7tW/uN0/I66 =g8U3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6662415.7EV7Aj2mLe--