From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: none Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:53:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20140212205346.GA12217@debian> References: <52FAA177.4030701@totakura.in> <1392218132-13440-1-git-send-email-sreeharsha@totakura.in> <87r478z10y.fsf@gnu.org> <20140212192538.GA4340@debian> <87wqh0xede.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58855) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDgok-0006qe-2q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:54:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDgoa-0001Zk-LS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:54:02 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wqh0xede.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 09:30:53PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I think this is largely because the official PKG_CHECK_MODULES Autoconf > macro doesn’t fail by default when pkg-config is not found (which may or > may not be a good idea, depending on the package.) Then it is the authors' responsibility to either let the configuration fail, or to include tests that do not rely on pkg_config, in my opinion. Andreas