Re: [RFC] Using pkgconf instead of pkg-config

Re: [RFC] Using pkgconf instead of pkg-config

[ericonr]

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New comment by ericonr on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/3391#issuecomment-618023686

Comment:
Is it still intended to get this working?

Re: [RFC] Using pkgconf instead of pkg-config

[Cogitri]

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New comment by Cogitri on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/3391#issuecomment-618033350

Comment:
As noted in https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/3391#issuecomment-466848064 this has been reverted.

Re: [RFC] Using pkgconf instead of pkg-config

[ericonr]

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New comment by ericonr on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/3391#issuecomment-618529489

Comment:
@Cogitri do you think the issue can be closed, then? Or is it still a possibility?

Re: [ISSUE] [CLOSED] [RFC] Using pkgconf instead of pkg-config

[ericonr]

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Closed issue by Cogitri on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/3391

Description:
I propose to use pkgconf instead of pkg-config for building. pkgconf has some advantages to pkg-config:

* It's still actively maintained (on https://git.dereferenced.org/pkgconf/pkgconf)
* It generally is faster than pkg-config...
* ...while providing a more accurate dependency graph (which prevents excessive overlinking)

Other distros such as Arch, Fedora, Mageia and most of the BSDs already use pkg-conf. Also see the Arch ML for their thread about this topic: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2018-May/029252.html

Re: [RFC] Using pkgconf instead of pkg-config

[Logarithmus]

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New comment by Logarithmus on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/3391#issuecomment-869052127

Comment:
@ericonr what about reconsidering `pkgconf`? Are there only 7 packages broken? If yes then maybe it's better to try fixing them instead of keeping to use technically inferior `pkg-config`?

Re: [RFC] Using pkgconf instead of pkg-config

[ericonr]

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New comment by ericonr on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/3391#issuecomment-869053113

Comment:
I sure don't want to deal with the churn and take care of fixing any bugs that may appear. And don't revive old issues.

Re: [RFC] Using pkgconf instead of pkg-config

[Logarithmus]

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New comment by Logarithmus on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/3391#issuecomment-869053910

Comment:
@ericonr OK, seems like there are many packages which will be broken by `pkgconf`:
>this massively breaks most packages cross compilation. That behavior is not in line with the spec.

It would be nice tho either to fix `pkgconf` to make it match the spec in this aspect or to alter `./xbps-src` to not to rely on this behaviour. But someone has to do this dirty job :( Certainly, not anytime soon.

Re: [RFC] Using pkgconf instead of pkg-config

[Logarithmus]

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New comment by Logarithmus on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/3391#issuecomment-869053910

Comment:
@ericonr OK, seems like there are many packages which will be broken by `pkgconf`:
>this massively breaks most packages cross compilation. That behavior is not in line with the spec.

It would be nice tho either to fix `pkgconf` to make it match the spec in this aspect or to alter `./xbps-src` to not to rely on this behaviour. But someone has to do this dirty job :( Certainly, not anytime soon.

P. S. Arch Linux have been using `pkgconf` for 3 years, but they don't have to support multiple architectures (Arch is x86_64/i686 only), so their experience isn't applicable to Void.

Re: [RFC] Using pkgconf instead of pkg-config

[Logarithmus]

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New comment by Logarithmus on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/3391#issuecomment-869053910

Comment:
@ericonr OK, seems like there are many packages which will be broken by `pkgconf`:
>this massively breaks most packages cross compilation. That behavior is not in line with the spec.

It would be nice tho either to fix `pkgconf` to make it match the spec in this aspect or to alter `./xbps-src` to not to rely on this behaviour. But someone has to do this dirty job :( Certainly, not anytime soon.

P. S. Arch Linux has been using `pkgconf` for 3 years, but they don't have to support multiple architectures (Arch is x86_64/i686 only), so their experience isn't applicable to Void.