Re: [gentoo-dev] new virtual/pkgconfig to support lighter alternatives

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Monday 30 April 2012 14:27:29 Samuli Suominen wrote:
> +1 for creating the virtual and migrating the tree to use
> virtual/pkgconfig. although, on the otherhand, you could just use
> package.provided for thesetype of unsupported experiments (like i'm
> doing with pkgconfig-openbsd)

ok, with no one against the virtual, i'll implement it

> [1] pkgconf is not compatible as per Comment #5 of bug 413849. needs to
> follow same version scheme as f.d.o's pkg-config.

there seems to be miscommunication there.  it's compatible.

> [2] pkg-config-lite should be punted from tree as per bug 414101,
> unnecessarily bundling glib code.

not getting punted.  what little glib code it bundles (and it really is quite 
little) is hand extracted.  it doesn't just drop the glib tarball in there.

would be nice if the eglib replacement (that bluez used to use) grew legs ... 
then we could even use that.

otherwise, much of the glib funcs are brain dead simple and can be replaced 
with #defines.  g_free() for example is a waste of space.

> there is no real problem with using
> external glib. not liking it doesn't make it a problem. it's perfectly
> bootstrappable and the bootstrapping is documented (plus ebuilds does
> this for users so it's nothing you should even be thinking about...)

glib-2 is not an acceptable hard requirement.  its hard requirement on full 
locale/multibyte support is a non-starter.

> [3] pkgconfig-openbsd is incompatible in many ways, for example, doesn't
> pass -pthread/-lpthread properly and breaks on -Wl,--as-needed systems.

i have no interest in that
-mike

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