[Bug 30398] incorporate OpenBSD patches or make them unnecessary

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30398

--- Comment #3 from Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper at humppa.nl> 2010-09-27 15:14:02 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> > > pkg-config
> > We wrote our own pkg-config in perl and it resides in the base system. We could
> > change it to provide such a file.
> 
> If you really can't use the normal pkg-config then you should make sure your
> reimplementation is compatible, I think. In the C implementation, there is
> actually no pkg-config.pc - pkg-config inserts equivalent information into its
> internal data structures before reading any .pc files. I'd recommend doing the
> same.
We try to have our pkg-config implementation as compatible as possible with the
"normal" one, I've added the missing feature our pkg-config, and the diff is
awaiting review and further testing. So the pkg-config are not needed anymore,
thanks for pointing it out.

> Note that the 0.21 dependency is to support a fairly subtle feature of
> Requires.private (adding private dependencies' CFLAGS), so you may need to
> check that your pkg-config reimplementation behaves the same.
Indeed.

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