The file "macros2/gnome-autogen.sh" from the gnome-common package is parsing the version output of `pkg-config --version` pkg-config, pkg-config-lite, pkgconfig-openbsd are all printing the matching freedesktop.org version scheme (0.26, 0.27... for example) 13:56 <@angelos> checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0... testing pkg-config... too old (found version 0.8) 13:56 <@angelos> yay ;( 14:00 <@ssuominen> :o 14:00 <@angelos> default gnome-autogen.sh settings check for that 14:00 * angelos forced minimum version to 0.1 now 14:00 <@ssuominen> dev-util/pkgconf spits out 0.8 with --version or similar argument and gnome-autogen.sh parses it? 14:01 <@angelos> yup 14:01 <@ssuominen> the package should be getting the version string from the pkg.m4 (which is same for every implemantation) 14:02 <@angelos> tell the gnome guys, gnome-autogen.sh is part of gnome-base/gnome-common :P 14:02 <@ssuominen> dev-util/pkgconfig-openbsd prints 0.26, as in, the freedesktop.org's pkg-config version string for compability 14:02 <@angelos> ~ % pkg-config --version 14:02 <@angelos> pkgconf 0.8 14:03 <@ssuominen> yup, propably should just s/0.8/0.27/ (after dealing with bug 426410) 14:03 <+willikins> https://bugs.gentoo.org/426410 "dev-util/pkgconf: pkg.m4 is outdated and no longer in sync with upstream copy"; Gentoo Linux, Applications; CONF; ssuominen:dev-embedded
Why should I do this? The correct way to get the pkg-config version for use in scripts is to query the modversion like so: $ pkg-config --modversion pkg-config Which pkgconf supports without any problem: ciaranis:~/dev-src/pkgconf$ pkg-config --modversion pkg-config 0.25 ciaranis:~/dev-src/pkgconf$ ./pkgconf --modversion pkg-config 0.26 Any other way is broken and inherent to errors, and even discouraged by the pkg-config authors. I'm not doing this upstream, sorry.
CCing angelos if he remembers howto reproduce this to determine whetever this should go to gnome@ or closed as invalid...
This is pretty simple to reproduce actually. Just check out any live version of any app using gnome-autogen, for example plank: ~ % bzr branch lp:plank Branched 659 revisions. ~ % cd plank plank % ./autogen.sh /usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh [...] checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0... testing pkg-config... too old (found version 0.8) ***Error***: You must have pkg-config >= 0.14.0 installed to build plank. Download the appropriate package for from your distribution or get the source tarball at 'http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/releases/pkgconfig-0.14.0.tar.gz Considering there's pkg-config --modversion, I'd say this is a bug in gnome-autogen.sh, which seems rather ugly to fix though. It has a generic version_check(), that just calls (a more complex version of) $pkgtocheck --version.
Moving to gnome-common maintainers then, and this would be an upstream bug too... $ pkg-config --atleast-version 0.14 $ echo $? 0 $ pkg-config --atleast-pkgconfig-version 0.14 $ echo $? 0 $ pkg-config --version | head -n 1 pkgconf 0.8.1 [pkg-config compatible]
Could you please report this directly to upstream? You will obviously explain the problem better than me to upstream. Thanks a lot
(In reply to comment #5) > Could you please report this directly to upstream? You will obviously > explain the problem better than me to upstream. Thanks a lot This should suffice, but I'm not going to write the patch. That should be an motivation for the pkgconf maintainers since otherwise pkhconf isn't a valid provider for the virtual... http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680363
OK, thanks
Patch submitted upstream.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680363#c2 needs to get backported (or pkgconf dropped from virtual/pkgconfig)
Resolving as fixed since pkgconf --version displays the fd.o pkg-config work-alike version now (since 0.8.4). This should still be fixed by upstream, but it's no longer pkgconf's bug
(In reply to Jeff (JD) Horelick from comment #10) > Resolving as fixed since pkgconf --version displays the fd.o pkg-config > work-alike version now (since 0.8.4). This should still be fixed by > upstream, but it's no longer pkgconf's bug Yeah, I suppose pkgconf maintainers are fine with --version being stuck to f.d.o pkg-config version, since nobody tested the patch and it got rejected due to lack of testing: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680363#c4
