Heads-up: Enabling generation of pkg-config requires

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Todd Zullinger wrote:

> Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> Just a heads-up, I'm (finally) enabling the generation of automatic
>> pkg-config and libtool requires in rpm. Provides for these have been
>> generated since first rpm 4.6.0 alpha hit rawhide, so with a bit of
>> luck, all/most involved packages have been rebuilt since then and
>> already have  the needed provides for satisfying the new requires.
>>
>> But if you see unsatisfied dependencies on pkgconfig(foo) and
>> libtool(foo), request a rebuild of the dependant package, that's all
>> it  should take. Except if you happen to hit a big chain of
>> pkg-config using  packages that haven't been rebuilt in several
>> months, or bugs in the  dependency generation, or buggy pkg-config
>> .pc files...
>
> A recent build of gtkpod failed to install libgpod-devel¹, which
> requires pkgconfig(gobject-2.0).  Shouldn't glib2-devel provide that?
> It's certainly been rebuilt recently, yet the only pkgconfig provides
> it has is pkgconfig(glib-2.0).  The latest glib2-devel package has a
> number of .pc files though:
>
> $ rpm -qpl glib2-devel-2.19.1-2.fc11.i386.rpm | grep '\.pc$'
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gio-2.0.pc
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gio-unix-2.0.pc
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/glib-2.0.pc
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gmodule-2.0.pc
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gmodule-export-2.0.pc
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gmodule-no-export-2.0.pc
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gobject-2.0.pc
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gthread-2.0.pc
>
> So, is this a bug in the libgpod packaging or in the rpm pkgconfig
> provides stuff?

Bug in rpm pkgconfig generation, see 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473814

 	- Panu -