pkg-config-0.21, Requires.private items Required even when not
using --static
Tom Parker
palfrey at tevp.net
Wed Jan 24 05:45:56 PST 2007
Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Shouldn't Libs.private and Requires.private be ignored and not be used
>> when/if one doesn't use
>> $ pkg-config --static
>> ?
>
> Searching bugzilla, found this issue to be already reported,
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4738
> with patch supplied. Sadly, the original report is over a year old.
Requires.private is also needed for --cflags, as the library headers for
package foo often require the headers for bar (indeed, that's half the
point of Requires.private).
(Of course, the recursive adding isn't done properly, but that's my pet
bug... https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8788)
Tom Parker
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