The pkg-config program is used to retrieve information about installed
libraries in the system. It is typically used to compile and link against one
or more libraries. It's more useful to the compilation process than to
the end-user.
pkg-config retrieves information about packages from special metadata files.
These files are named after the package, with the extension .pc. By default,
pkg-config looks for these files in the following directories:
${PREFIX}/libdata/pkgconfig, ${PREFIX}/lib/pkgconfig,
${LOCALBASE}/libdata/pkgconfig, ${LOCALBASE}/lib/pkgconfig,
${X11BASE}/libdata/pkgconfig, and ${X11BASE}/lib/pkgconfig; it will also look
in the list of directories specified by the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment
variable.
WWW: http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki/
devel/pkgconfig -> devel/pkg-config
Rename this ports to use the real vendor package name. The advantage of this
is to allow our users' keyword search works and easier for users to file the
Bugzilla report when they use our name of ports. Debian, Gentoo, NetBSD and
other OSs have the correct package name, but not in our ports tree.
My team, FreeBSD GNOME Team, have agreed with it.
As for other ports, chase the rename.
PR: ports/97985
Repocopy by: marcus
Teach pkg-config to look in the default lib/pkgconfig subdirectories along
with the FreeBSD-specific, hier(7)-friendly libdata/pkgconfig subdirectories.
This is being done to be developer-friendly. A port SHOULD NEVER install
a pkg-config (.pc) file to a lib/pkgconfig subdirectory.
PR: 91213
Submitted by: anholt (with some modifications)
Presenting GNOME 2.12 for FreeBSD. The release is chock full of bug fixes
and new features. Don't believe me? Then see for yourself at
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/en/.
DO NOT USE portupgrade by itself to upgrade to GNOME 2.12. Instead, use
the gnome_upgrade.sh script from
http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_upgrade212.sh. This script will
circumvent some potential pitfalls users can see if they use portupgrade
by itself.
In keeping with tradition, GNOME 2.12 for FreeBSD comes with a special
splash screen. The winner of this release's contest is
Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com>. His splash screen
was inspired by http://art.gnome.org/contests/2.12-splash/83.
(Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above )
Whoa there, boy, that's a mighty big commit y'all have there...
Begin autotools sanitization sequence by requiring ports to explicitly
specify which version of {libtool,autoconf,automake} they need, erasing
the concept of a "system default".
For ports-in-waiting:
USE_LIBTOOL=YES -> USE_LIBTOOL_VER=13
USE_AUTOCONF=YES -> USE_AUTOCONF_VER=213
USE_AUTOMAKE=YES -> USE_AUTOMAKE_VER=14
Ports attempting to use the old style system after June 1st 2004 will be
sorely disappointed.
Disable pthread support in pkgconfig. pkgconfig doesn't use any
threading anyway, so this does not add or remove functionality. However,
this does allow pkgconfig to build on Sparc64 which is a pre-req for
making the release documentation.
Submitted by: tmm
Remove warning when upgrading pkgconfig. Also, make it clear to users that
the pkgconfig directories should not be removed unless you're removing
_all_ GNOME components.
PR: 43817
Submitted by: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
GNOME has just changed the layout of their FTP site. This resulted in
making all the distfiles unfetachable. Update all GNOME ports that fetch
from MASTER_SITE_GNOME to fetch from the correct location.
On -stable anyway, there is a problem getting "other" libs and cflags from
dependency packages (for example, from gthread-2.0). This prevents ports
like ORbit2 from compiling. It seems to be a pretty serious oversight on the
pkgconfig folks, so I'm going to submit this patch to them.
Basically, this patch adds recursive scanning capabilities to the
other_cflags and other_libs functions.
PR: 35831
Submitted by: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Update gtk/glib to the version 2.0 and other related ports to the latest
versions.
PR: 35541, 35744, 35757
Submitted by: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Rework previous commit. Turns out that pkgconfig is not a build-time
dependency for glib12, so remove that, and put pkgconfig back to the way it
was before.
Add the gtk+ distfile for extraction purposes, rather than depending on gtk12,
since this causes an infinite loop when we add pkgconfig capability to gtk12
and friends shortly.
SWitch maintainership of core GNOME ports to a small group of committers
(gnome@FreeBSD.org), since this is now definitely too big for just one person.
In addition to PREFIX/libdata/pkgconfig scan appropriate directory under
LOCALBASE and X11BASE for .pc files, so ports that live in X11BASE will be
able to use pkgconfig.
