pkg-config 0.28
===
- Fixed a pair of long-standing and intertwined bugs involving unwanted
removal of flags. The first is that other Libs flags like -Wl are now
kept in context order with -l flags. The second is that aggressive
removal of all duplicate arguments has been scaled back so that just
consecutive duplicate arguments are removed. One result of this change
is that some flags could be repeated in the final output, especially
flags from non-pkg-config packages like -lm. Since pkg-config rarely
has enough knowledge here about the right thing to do, we throw the
duplicate arguments at the compiler/linker and trust it will do the
right thing.
- Fixed an old bug to allow circular Requires. This fix brings along a
small behavior change in that pkg-config resolves requires depth
first, causing some lower level flags to show up earlier in the output
than previously.
- Cleaned up many corner-case bugs and ambiguous behavior in
pkg-config's interface. Thanks to Michał Górny for finding so many of
these.
- New autoconf macro PKG_CHECK_VAR for reading variables from .pc files.
- Default to suppressing -L/lib and/or -L/lib64 like their /usr
counterparts.
- To help support multiarch scenarios out of the box, $host-pkg-config
is now installed unless --disable-host-tool is passed to configure.
***disabled in pkgsrc***
- Added optional gcov usage through the --with-gcov configure option. As
a result, many more tests were added to greatly increase the coverage
of the code to 86% of executed lines on a Fedora 18 machine.
- Bugs fixed: 130, 7331, 16101, 17053, 19950, 34504, 48098, 54231,
54271, 54379, 54384, 54386, 54388, 54389, 54390, 54391, 54427, 54463,
54716, 57078, 58363, 59435.
- Various fixes for using the internal glib snapshot. It should now be
usable pretty much everywhere with the exception that universal
builds are not supported on OS X.
- Remove usage of gettext from the internal glib to avoid gettext and
libintl dependencies.
- Update internal glib snapshot to 2.32.4.
- Fix check for POSIX shell used in tests to work better.
- Handle spaces in autodetected prefix on Windows.
- Bugs fixed 3550, 51883, 52031, 53493.
pkg-config 0.27
===
- Drop usage of popt for equivalent API in glib2.
- Add back an internal snapshot of glib2 to break circular dependency.
This can be used by passing --with-internal-glib to configure. On
Windows it may still be required to use an installed glib.
- Fix --exists to check for Requires and Requires.private. This ensures
that all necessary packages are installed prior to using --cflags,
--libs, etc.
- Various fixes for MinGW which should allow it to be used unpatched on
that system.
- New autoconf macros PKG_INSTALLDIR and PKG_NOARCH_INSTALLDIR to help
determine the .pc file install directory.
- Fix handling of --exact/atleast/max-version vs. =/>=/<=.
- Fix errors in man page source.
- Ensure testing only searches in the check directory.
- Bump glib requirement to 2.16 to avoid deprecated
g_win32_get_package_installation_subdirectory().
- Autotools refresh and update. The required versions now are
autoconf-2.62, automake-1.11 and libtool-2.2.
- Use g_alloca from glib instead of figuring out alloca ourselves.
- Remove search for setresuid & setreuid only needed for internal popt.
- Bugs fixed: 833, 2458, 5214, 5326, 5703, 6074, 8653, 9135, 9143,
9584, 10652, 11464, 14396, 17053, 23922, 28776, 29011, 29801, 31699,
31700, 32622, 34382, 37266, 39646, 41081, 43149, 44843, 45599, 45742,
48743
pkg-config 0.26
===
- Build system fixes
- More tests
- pkg.m4 fixups which makes autoconf 2.66 happier.
- Drop support for legacy -config scripts. Those should already be
gone and cause problems in cross-compilation environments.
- Drop embedded glib
- Fix up pkg.m4 to handle the case of --exists working and --cflags
or --libs failing.
- Various documentation updates
- Allow $() through without escaping it.
- Add --with-system-include-path instead of hard-coding
/usr/include.
* 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
- Add support for setting sysroot through PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR in
the environment.
- Update included glib to 1.2.10.
- Other minor fixes, including a segfault.
pkg-config 0.22
===
- Make Requires.private a whole lot more useful by traversing the
whole tree, not just the top-level, for Cflags.
- Add support for using the system glib.
- Update URL to pkg-config website
- Fix some win32 problems.
- Other minor fixes.
on NetBSD, just assume that anything follows the ELF semantic and
has no leading underscore. This doesn't matter much as the module
support of glib is not used by pkg-config. Patch away the check for
ANSI library flags as we only support ANSI C compiler anyway. Move
the checks for the various inline keywords to compile-only. Always
fake the poll results, it doesn't really matter either.
pkg-config 0.21
===
- Fix some cosmetic output from pkg.m4
- Fix build problems with !gcc due to always passing -Wall
- Documentation fixes
- We now always add the Cflags from packages we depend on, whether
they are public or private dependencies. The discussion surrouding
this change can be found in http://bugs.debian.org/340904 .
- Add internal pkg-config package which can be queried for version
number and other information.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
- Fix test suite to work on Solaris. Yay non-POSIX /bin/sh :-(
- Fix segfault on --help with gcc4. Fix segfault on bigendian arches
in some cases.
- Win32 fixes
- Add --short-errors, now used by pkg.m4 if available. This gives a
better error message if some libraries can't be found.
file's sole purpose was to provide a dependency on pkg-config and set
some environment variables. Instead, turn pkg-config into a "tool"
in the tools framework, where the pkg-config wrapper automatically
adds PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to the environment before invoking the real
pkg-config.
For all package Makefiles that included pkg-config/buildlink3.mk, remove
that inclusion and replace it with USE_TOOLS+=pkg-config.
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.
