minor behaviour change of pkgconfig 0.28 (in rawhide)

Remi Collet Fedora at FamilleCollet.com
Thu Mar 28 10:39:52 UTC 2013


Previous versions

$ echo "==$(pkg-config --cflags-only-I openssl)=="
== ==

New version
$ echo "==$(pkg-config --cflags-only-I openssl)=="
====

This space to empty string output can breaks some poorly written
autoconf script.



Remi.


P.S.1: 	I hope it could helps some packager...
	avoid losing too much time on this...
P.S.2:	example of broken script
	http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=640e72ce91d8e591b92cd93c18d1bfe3befe3424


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