Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:54:35 +0000 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> To: "Jason E. Hale" <bsdkaffee@gmail.com> Cc: Max Brazhnikov <makc@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, kde@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org, kwm@freebsd.org, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>, Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com>, ruby@freebsd.org, Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to remove erroneous deps from pkgng Message-ID: <20120724065435.GS77496@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <1430411.QqeotQn32O@mocha.verizon.net> References: <D0056D18EAAD41119F26D0715FA52FB6@Rivendell> <1766706.FQA5Z9D0Zj@mercury.ph.man.ac.uk> <20120723205034.GR77496@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <1430411.QqeotQn32O@mocha.verizon.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 08:04:44PM -0400, Jason E. Hale wrote: > On Monday, July 23, 2012 20:50:34 Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > Here is a plan for pkg-config, I hope it will statisfy everyone. > > > > First we need to get rid of pkg-config, since 0.26 we can't boostrap it > > anymore because it depends on glib which depends on pkg-config. > > > > Hopefully we have a viable alternative. > > > > What I will do is : > > step 1/ introduce a new pkgconf port (https://github.com/nenolod/pkgconf) > > which is 100% compatible with pkg-config and considers any incompatibility > > as a bug. > > > > along with this, I will introduce a new MACRO: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/USE_PKGCONFIG.diff > > > > USE_PKGCONFIG= yes or USE_PKGCONFIG= build > > will bring pkgconf only has a build dependency > > USE_PKGCONFIG= run > > > > will bring pkgconf has a run dependency (some things like ruby wrapper or > > perl wrapper) > > > > USE_PKGCONFIG= both > > will bring both run and build deps. > > > > Why a MACRO, because some ports may need en environnement variable in > > CONFIGURE_ENV > > PKG_CONFIG=pkgconf do work correctly. > > > > the USE_GNOME= pkgconfig will be automatically add USE_PKGCONFIG= both > > > > Yeah sorry for step one will keep pkgconf in both dependencies. > > > > This is necessary because too much ports rely on one of their deps bringing > > pkgconfig, and this concerns about 4k+ ports. > > > > All the gnome one (mostly), all the xorg one (xproto bring pkgconfig) most > > of the gtk ones, most of things depending on libxml2 and curl, from what I > > have seen. > > > > step 2/ advertise the maintainers to stop using USE_GNOME= pkgconfig but > > rather switch to USE_PKGCONFIG, and do it actively. > > > > setp 3/ drop USE_GNOME= pkgconfig from bsd.gnome.mk > > > > when switching to USE_PKGCONFIG becare full about the ports that depend on > > your ports to make sure, it doesn't expect pkgconfig being brought by your > > port. > > > > regards, > > Bapt > > I think it might be a good idea to factor out the pkg-config hacks provided by > USE_GNOME=gnomehack as well, and expand it to work with CMake (or other build > systems if needed). Most ports that install .pc files must be fixed to > install them in libdata instead of lib. > > Jason E. Hale That is a good idea, good be done after the switch to pkgconf. It will need some volunteer :) regards, Bapt [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlAORqsACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EzitACaAroTABdRe8vqOaQUhC/AGg9c j8MAoLHHHW8WSDSq64Zx6/yBF/Hrtc8R =EvE3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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