From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: 68813@debbugs.gnu.org, Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech>,
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Subject: [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 08/20] gnu: pkg-config: Alias to pkgconf-as-pkg-config.
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 23:33:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jdx5w7q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0h1mwiw.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:34:31 -0500")
Hi,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> This switches the default pkg-config implementation used in Guix to pkgconf.
>>
>> I didn’t follow discussions and I learned about ‘pkgconf’ only recently.
>> I’m afraid that adding this to ‘core-updates’ would further postpone its
>> merger, which was already being discussed beginning of January.
>
> Was it in a good shape to be merged back then?
No, it wasn’t:
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-01/msg00096.html>.
But a lot of work has gone into the branch since that time that goes way
beyond “fixing problems”.
[...]
> I've manually rebuilt a good chunk of the world (mpv and plasmatube)
> using pkgconf, and haven't seen any breakage caused by it. You can try
> do build these patches on top of current core-updates on the
> hydra-guix-129 machine, which should still have it in its store.
I won’t try, I’m just saying from experience that the “just one last
tiny change” strategy never converges. :-)
>> (Aside: where should I read about the rationale of the pkg-config ->
>> pkgconf move?)
[...]
> The above demonstrates that pkgconf's behavior is to consider *.private
> fields only when provided the --static option, which is what we want.
>
> I hope this helps understanding the rationale.
It does, and it looks like a nice improvement. Thanks for explaining!
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-30 4:26 [bug#68813] [PATCH 1/5] gnu: Add atf Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:09 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 00/20] Replace pkg-config with pkgconf to reduce propagation / Inkscape updates Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 02/20] gnu: Add lutok Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 03/20] gnu: Add kyua Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 04/20] gnu: pkgconf: Enable test suite Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 05/20] gnu: Add pkgconf-as-pkg-config Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 06/20] gnu: pkgconf: Add $PKG_CONFIG_PATH search path Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 07/20] gnu: pkgconf: Add support for cross-compilation Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 08/20] gnu: pkg-config: Alias to pkgconf-as-pkg-config Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-24 11:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-02-24 20:34 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-24 22:33 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2024-03-09 18:32 ` bug#68813: [PATCH core-updates] Replace pkg-config with pkgconf to reduce propagation / Inkscape updates Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 09/20] gnu: pstoedit: Update to 4.00 Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 10/20] gnu: autotrace: Update to 0.31.10 Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 11/20] gnu: autotrace: Remove libtool archives Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 12/20] gnu: autotrace: Fix pkg-config file Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 13/20] gnu: gd: Update to 2.3.3 Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 14/20] gnu: lib2geom: Update to 1.3 Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 15/20] gnu: inkscape: Truly enable ImageMagic support Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 16/20] gnu: lib2geom: Use gexps and remove input labels Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 17/20] gnu: inkscape: Update to 1.3.2 Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 18/20] gnu: inkscape: Sort inputs Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 19/20] gnu: inkscape: Fix Python support Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:10 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 20/20] Revert "gnu: mpv: Propagate most libraries." Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-22 16:29 ` [bug#68813] [core-updates PATCH 01/20] gnu: Add atf Maxim Cournoyer
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