From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: libgit2, libgit2-glib: pkg-config file: dependencies on other libraries: how to represent them in Guix?
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 09:47:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760t77xbs.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160617195657.38541268@scratchpost.org>
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:
> I'm trying to package libgit2-glib and gnome-builder.
>
> - libgit2 has openssl as input.
> - libgit2-glib installs a pkg-config file.
> - gnome-builder uses libgit2-glib .
>
> Something always complains about missing openssl parts.
>
> For example I can get
> Package 'openssl', required by 'libgit2', not found
> when building libgit2-glib.
>
> Almost whatever else I do instead, the error wanders around in the DAG.
>
> In order to make it work I added openssl as a propagated input in libgit2-glib. This does work.
>
> But is it the right fix?
This depends on the pkg-config file that the library installs. If this
file contains a section that lists other libraries as private, then
propagation is probably the correct approach.
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-18 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-17 17:56 libgit2, libgit2-glib: pkg-config file: dependencies on other libraries: how to represent them in Guix? Danny Milosavljevic
2016-06-18 7:47 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2016-06-18 9:10 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-06-19 13:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-18 9:16 ` Danny Milosavljevic
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