From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pkg-config required on OSX, why? Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 19:45:45 +0200 Message-ID: <53764EC9.9020906@swipnet.se> References: <5375F003.7050201@swipnet.se> <83y4y1eush.fsf@gnu.org> <537614E8.7050401@swipnet.se> <53763F5A.2050306@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400262394 24763 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2014 17:46:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 17:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 16 19:46:27 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WlMD5-0000S6-TE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 19:46:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37096 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlMD5-0000H4-Ig for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 13:46:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35854) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlMCw-0000Gs-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 13:46:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlMCo-0006Tw-Dt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 13:46:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailfe06.swip.net ([212.247.154.161]:55358 helo=swip.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlMCg-0006Ry-Em; Fri, 16 May 2014 13:45:54 -0400 X-T2-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50 Original-Received: from hosdjarv.se (account mj138573@tele2.se [46.59.42.57] verified) by mailfe06.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.4) with ESMTPA id 499798141; Fri, 16 May 2014 19:45:52 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 212.247.154.161 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171888 Archived-At: Hi. Glenn Morris skrev 2014-05-16 18:46: > "Jan D." wrote: > >> On the other hand, configure has called pkg-config ever since Gtk+ >> entered the Emacs source. > > Yes, so I imagine almost everyone already had pkg-config installed. > It is required to use many of the libraries that we have decided are > (quasi-)essential for a "fully" functioning Emacs. > Not sure what your point is here. > Something like: it was never required for NS before, and the old usage of pkg-config managed without those macros that now are essential. >> I have, but things have now moved on. > > No point discussing it then. > Not really, no. Jan D.