On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 02:55:03PM +0100, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira wrote: > On 1/10/23 14:18, Daniel Wagner wrote: > > The current libtracefs.pkg file lists the dependency on > > libtraceevent ("pkg-config --libs libtracefs" -> "-ltracefs > > -ltraceevent"). > > > > Dan Nicholson's Guide to pkg-config[1] stats that "Libs: The link > > flags specific to this package and any required libraries that don't > > support pkg-config". Thus the current libtracefs.pkg is not correct. > > > > rtla is depending on libtraceevent but it doesn't express this in > > 'pkg-config' part to retrieve the correct build flags. > > > > In order to be able to update the "Libs:" section in the libtracefs > > project we need to list the dependency explicitly to avoid future linker > > failures. > > I am ok with it. Steve? FWIW, this is change is also backwards compatible, meaning if you have system which has a libtracefs.pkg installed which lists libtraceevent in its Libs: section the 'pkg-config --libs libtracefs libtraceevent' command will return the identically string which is '-ltracefs -ltraceevent'.