On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 10:26 AM Philip Kovacs via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A "necessary and sufficient" question on the use of .pc files supplied by library providers. > > 1. Package foo-devel installs a pkgconfig .pc file as a convenience to developers. > 2. Package bar requires headers and libraries provided by foo and is both a build > and runtime dependency of foo. > 3. Package bar uses autotools and m4 to discover and test for the presence > of foo.h and libfoo, but does not use not pkgconfig in any way. > > True or False: > > The spec for package bar MUST use BuildRequires: foo-devel and not > BuildRequires: pkgconfig(foo), because bar does not use pkgconfig directly. > > Ref: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/PkgConfigBuildRequires/ > Technically, I suppose the wording strongly pushes that way. It’s certainly the guideline I use myself. But it’s also worth examining if you can contribute upstream to change it to use pkgconfig instead. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
