* 0.24 included a too strict whitespace/shell metacharacter filter
leading to some legal characters like = and : being escaped in the
output. This has been fixed.
* when building with newer and external libpopt, it would be confused
over being asked to split an empty string, leading to errors with
packages that included empty fields in their .pc files.
* Make the COPYING file explicitly GPLv2. The COPYING file in 0.24
was inadvertently GPLv3 rather than the correct GPLv2.
* Minor changes to documentation
Changes 0.24:
* Fix up bug in PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT handling which mangled non-I and
non-L arguments
* Put /usr/lib/pkgconfig and /usr/share/pkgconfig into the default
search path when no prefix is passed to configure.
* Portability fixes for Windows and NetBSD
* Various man page updates
* Add logging support to log how pkg-config is being called.
* Skip Requires.private unless we need them for Cflags
* Add a variable, pc_path to the compiled-in pkg-config package that
you can query for the compiled-in PKG_CONFIG_PC_PATH.
* Various updates to pkg.m4.
* Update rpmvercmp with bugfixes from upstream.
* Add introductory guide to pkg-config, thanks to Dan Nicholson for
the patch.
* Add listing of variables in a package
* Make it possible to use external popt.
* Add --print-provides and --print-requires(-private) options
* Add support for paths containing whitespace and shell metacharacters
News:
2005-07-16 Tollef Fog Heen
* configure.in: Release 0.19
2005-07-15 Tollef Fog Heen
* pkg.c (package_get_var): Make sure to g_strdup all the return
values and not return some values which should not be freed and
some which should. Yay valgrind. Freedesktop #3682
* configure.in: Fix default search path to be pkgconfig rather
than pkg-config again. Freedesktop #3662
* pkg.m4: Add a missing AC_MSG_RESULT. Thanks to Gary Kramlich
for noticing this and harassing me to fix it.
2005-06-29 Tollef Fog Heen
* configure.in: Release 0.18.1
* pkg.m4: Brown bag fix. pkg_failed was always set to “untried”.
Debian #316181.
2005-06-27 Tollef Fog Heen
* configure.in: Rename to pkg-config.
pkg-config 0.18
The inter-library dependencies check was too tight and caused
problems if one used the --no-undefined flag to libtool on Solaris
(since it there expands to -Wl,-z,defs which disallows undefined
symbols). Add a new name to .pc files: Libs.private which will
not be listed in the output of --libs unless --static is also
given.
Private libraries are libraries which are needed in the case of
static linking or on platforms not supporting inter-library
dependencies. They are not supposed to be used for libraries
which are exposed through the library in question. An example of
an exposed library is GTK+ exposing Glib. A common example of a
private library is libm.
Generally, if include another library's headers in your own, it's
a public dependency and not a private one.
Thanks a lot to James Henstridge for both the bug and the following
discussion.
