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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Minor change in pkg-config behavior, starting with 0.28, late heads up for maintain
From:       Sergey Popov <pinkbyte () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2013-03-30 13:45:08
Message-ID: 5156EC64.8010301 () gentoo ! org
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29.03.2013 10:30, Samuli Suominen пишет:
> This is from Fedora Devel Mailing List. I found it to be news worthy
> also for Gentoo maintainers. So here it is:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Remi Collet Fedora at FamilleCollet.com
> Thu Mar 28 10:39:52 UTC 2013
> 
> Previous versions
> 
> $ echo "==$(pkg-config --cflags-only-I openssl)=="
> == ==
> 
> New version
> $ echo "==$(pkg-config --cflags-only-I openssl)=="
> ====
> 
> This space to empty string output can breaks some poorly written
> autoconf script.
> 
> 
> 
> Remi.
> 
> 
> P.S.1:     I hope it could helps some packager...
>     avoid losing too much time on this...
> P.S.2:    example of broken script
>     http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=640e72ce91d8e591b92cd93c18d1bfe3befe3424
> 
> 
> </snip>
> 

I have discovered this behaviour change due to resolving bug #455984,
where custom configure script was unaware of new pkgconfig.

-- 
Best regards, Sergey Popov
Gentoo Linux Developer
Desktop-effects project lead


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