[Scons-dev] Missing Wiki page on pkg-config

[Bill Deegan]

I haven't found the file in any of the backups I have.
It may be gone.
I'll look on a few other machines where I may have made a copy to work on
upgrading,etc.

-Bill

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 22:14 +0200, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> >
> […]
> > Wiki usually contains more info and useful user feedback. So is it
> > possible to recover that page to ensure that nothing important was
> > lost?
>
> I think it would be worth having the page recovered if at all possible.
> > >
> […]
> > Currently it is done with
> >     env.ParseConfig("pkg-config --libs --cflags $PKGCONFIG_FLAGS
> > pango" + backend + version_arg)
> > https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/blob/master/scons/pango.py#L22
> >
> > but it assumes that I have development libs installed on the system
> > in
> > appropriate location. I am on Windows. But even on Linux I'd prefer
> > not
> > to install anything anyway just to compile one package. So instead I
> > unpack http://win-builds.org/doku.php/1.5.0_packages#pango_1341-1_-_l
> > ibrary_for_layout_and_rendering_of_text
> > and need to find all files there.
> >
> > Is that feasible?
>
> No. You have to have the development headers installed to do the
> compilation at all, and the *.pc files needed for pkg-config invariable
> come with the development headers.
>
> Pango comes with a lot of dependencies.
>
> > I also found this on PyPI - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pykg-
> > config/1.3.0
> > which seems like it may help.
>
> Looks like an unmaintained project. Certainly we could fork this and
> have it inside SCons so as to replace the need for the external pkg-
> config program. The ParseConfig stuff could then be rewritten to make
> is very much easier to work with. Maybe this would lead to work on the
> whole Configure system, which is a wee bit difficult to work with at
> times.
>
>
> --
> Russel.
>
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