some more early 0.24 feedback

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 16:47 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 19:52 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >> "pkgconfig 0.24 breaks the mono compiler when using the -pkg parameter"
> >>
> >> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595550
> >>
> >> Seems some extra escaping is acting up.
> >> Possibly the fix for bug  3571 ?
> >
> > Another instance of this problem is
> >
> > pkg-config --cflags gconf-2.0
> >
> > which is now returning -DORBIT2\=1 instead of -DORBIT2=1 as it used to.
> >
> > I have reverted the escaping in the Fedora pkgconfig package for now,
> > until we can work out a way to escape whitespace without breaking the
> > rest of the world...
> 
> I see you also added the POPT_ERROR_NOARG bodge I posted. You may want
> to try my fuller patch, or extend that approach to also cover
> parse_libs and parse_libs_private. As it is, any empty Libs or
> Libs.private will cause the same problem. See the "system popt"
> thread.

Oh, I hadn't seen a fuller patch. Let me update the package once more...