Possible addition to buildgroups.xml: pkg-config

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Jun 20 17:28:56 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 19:07 +0200, Andreas Thienemann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> during a recent rebuild of all RHEL4 packages in mock, I saw a number of 
> packages which expect pkg-config to be present during the build stage, but 
> do not define it as a BuildRequire.
> 
> A short discussion of this issue on #fedora-devel suggested dropping 
> pkg-config into the buildgroups.xml definitions, so that it gets installed 
> by mock in each case.
> 
> Comments?

pkgconfig (the RPM name is pkgconfig and the binary is pkg-config) is
quite small and depends _only_ on glibc, so this seems logical to me.

Dan




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