From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pkg-config required on OSX, why? Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:52:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5375F003.7050201@swipnet.se> <83y4y1eush.fsf@gnu.org> <537614E8.7050401@swipnet.se> <53761FBA.1090709@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400255597 27973 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2014 15:53:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 15:53:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , "Jan D." , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 16 17:53:10 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 1WlKRS-0005Ve-5W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 17:53:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36494 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlKRR-0004ci-Pd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:53:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlKRI-0004Zl-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:52:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlKRA-0005lL-Vk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:52:52 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:58993) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlKRA-0005kj-RB; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:52:44 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id s4GFqUAu001779; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:52:30 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 321DC600B6; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:52:30 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <53761FBA.1090709@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 16 May 2014 07:24:58 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4944=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9378 : core <4944> : inlines <880> : streams <1184614> : uri <1758573> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:171880 Archived-At: > It does strike me, though, that this new requirement to have pkg-config > installed (and in the same place that automake is installed) > is a pain. I ran afoul of it myself not five minutes ago, since I use my own > automake. I'm inclined to have us copy pkg.m4 into m4, using a new tool > (admin/merge-pkg-config, say). That way, someone can periodically upgrade > to the latest pkg.m4 manually, and the rest of us won't have to worry about > having pkg-config installed correctly. Please do that. Building from Bazaar (or Git) is an important use case. Stefan "who sees the case of building from a tarball as the exception rather than the rule"