Missing pkgconfig dependencies

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 16:01 +0200, Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 08:43:38AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > .pc files contain dependencies, e.g. the gdk-pixbuf-2.0.pc file has the
> > line
> > 
> > Requires: gobject-2.0,gmodule-no-export-2.0
> > 
> > which means you'll get errors from pgk-config if you try to use the gdk-
> > pixbuf-2.0.pc file without having glib-devel installed (which contains
> > the gobject-2.0.pc and gmodule-no-export-2.0.pc files). Since rpm does
> > not pick up these dependencies on its own,
> Wouldn't It Be Cool(tm) if rpm did pick these dependencies automatically?
> 
> for i in $RPM_BUILD_DIR{%{_libdir},%{_datadir}}/pkgconfig/*.pc; do
> 	set -- $(sed -n 's/^Requires: //p' < "$i")
> 	for dep; do
> 		f=%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/$dep.pc
> 		[ -f "$f" ] && { rpm -qf "$f"; continue; }
> 		f=%{_datadir}/pkgconfig/$dep.pc
> 		[ -f "$f" ] && { rpm -qf "$f"; continue; }
> 		echo "pkg-config file $dep.pc not found" >&2
> 	done
> done
> 

Nice idea, but you'll run into difficulties with things like:

Requires: gdk-${target}-2.0 atk