From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: configure's dependency on pkg-config Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:32:56 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4EBF1038.8080805@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87pqgybgx8.fsf@escher.home> <87boshgedt.fsf@escher.home> <874ny8hp3a.fsf@escher.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321144390 19940 80.91.229.12 (13 Nov 2011 00:33:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:33:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?UTF-8?B?SmFuIERqw6Rydg==?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 13 01:33:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RPO0N-0004w4-J2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:33:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60164 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPO0M-0000gr-SW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:33:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40774) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPO0J-0000gY-Cu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:33:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPO0I-0004nV-AE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:32:59 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:39632) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPO0I-0004nN-2T; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:32:58 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A5939E800D; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:32:55 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id b5e51FUxYtqb; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:32:55 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (pool-71-189-109-235.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.109.235]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1356739E8007; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:32:55 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: <874ny8hp3a.fsf@escher.home> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:146019 Archived-At: On 11/12/11 15:56, Stephen Berman wrote: > If it had been documented in INSTALL I would have. It might be worth adding a section to INSTALL specifying what's needed to build Emacs in the usual way. This would include a shell, make, a C compiler, standard Unix utilities such as cp, and pkg-config. pkg-config is not listed in the GNU coding standards as one of the standard compilers and related programs that Makefiles can use. Perhaps it should be added to that list? I'm referring to: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Utilities-in-Makefiles.html