On Tue, 09 Feb 2016 20:56:59 -0600
Christopher W Carpenter <mordocai@mordocai.net> wrote:

> Talked about this on IRC davexunit, but there appears to be a circular dependency
> issue with gnutls and pkg-config now that pkg-config needs to be
> downloaded via https.
> 
[snip]
> 
> davexunit on #guix mentioned that this may need to be solved using a
> minimal build of gnutls that doesn't require pkg-config for https
> downloads but i'm a bit out of my depth here so I'm just reporting :).
> 
> I am happy to do some grunt work once the project decides what direction
> to go.
> 
> Thanks,
> Christopher Carpenter
> 
 
Another option is to try to build gnutls without pkg-config and as part of
the configure phase manually tell it where to find the dependencies. IIRC we
do that with some of the less complicated lower level packages.

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