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

[Matt Turner]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 October 2014 02:32, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Never heard/knew that there is another libelf provider but elfutils.
> I'm not sure how things are in Gentoo but Arch and Fedora seem to use
> elfutils.
> Have you tested building/running mesa with the alternative libelf provider ?

Yeah, we allow either libelf or elfutils to satisfy the dependency in Gentoo.