Re: pkg-config "Requires" fields and propagated inputs

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis:


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>> It looks like there are 3 classes of false positives here that would
>> need to be addressed to make the report more directly readable.
>
> I think all these false positives are fixed now!

Impressive!

> New sample output from my machine:
>
> portaudio: pkg-config: () libs: ("asound")
> avahi: pkg-config: ("glib-2.0" "gobject-2.0" "glib-2.0") libs: ()
> libatomic-ops: pkg-config: () libs: ("atomic_ops")

So ‘libs’ means that the .pc has “-latomic_ops”, right?

> ijs: pkg-config: () libs: ("ijs")
> mesa: pkg-config: ("xcb-dri3" "xcb-dri2" "libudev" "xcb-dri3" "xcb-dri2") libs: ()
> dbus-glib: pkg-config: ("gobject-2.0" "glib-2.0" "dbus-1") libs: ()
> libcroco: pkg-config: ("libxml-2.0" "glib-2.0") libs: ()
> gst-plugins-base: pkg-config: ("gio-2.0" "glib-2.0" "gio-2.0") libs: ()
> harfbuzz: pkg-config: ("icu-uc") libs: ()
> gtk+: pkg-config: ("gio-2.0" "cairo" "gio-2.0" "cairo" "gio-2.0" "cairo") libs: ()
> pango: pkg-config: ("gobject-2.0" "glib-2.0" "gmodule-no-export-2.0" "fontconfig" "freetype2" "xft") libs: ()
> cairo: pkg-config: ("xcb-shm" "xcb-render" "xcb-render") libs: ("z" "z")

delete-duplicates?  :-)

That looks nice.  So where’s the code?  ;-)

What are your thoughts on how to integrate it?  Should we make a ‘lint’
pass, or is there something that can be turned into a build phase?

Thanks!

Ludo’.