[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] clover: Require libelf

[Matt Turner]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 24 October 2014 01:29, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> I just noticed this patch.
>>>>
>>>> Why aren't we using pkg-config?
>>>>
>>> Because the package (neither upstream nor distros) provide the
>>> relevant .pc file(s) :-(
>>> Perhaps someone can give the upstream devs a ping/send them a patch ?
>>
>> What version doesn't have a .pc file? libelf-0.8.13-r1 (stable) in
>> Gentoo has libelf.pc.
>
> From the sources on http://www.mr511.de/software/ the first version to
> have a .pc file was 0.8.6, which is from 2005.

Ah, I see that there's an elfutils package that provides also libelf
-- without a pkg-config file. Good grief.