Created attachment 435546 [details, diff] patch internal glib for Cygwin While the Cygwin distro has both the pkgconfig and glib package, they do not use (and patch) pkgconfig's internal glib (which is patched by pkgconfig itself too). So the Cygwin glib patches do not necessarily apply (and work) for pkgconfig's internal glib. As a consequence, from https://github.com/cygwinports/glib2.0 I've forked https://github.com/haubi/pkgconfig-glib-cygwin-patches, to ease transforming the glib Cygwin patches for use with pkgconfig's internal glib.
Wouldn't be possible to try to report this to upstream to for not needing to carry this patch forever? Thanks
Basically agreed, but doesn't feel that easy - situation is: The Cygwin distro does not utilize pkg-config's internal glib. The Cygwin distro maintains a number of glib patches in https://github.com/cygwinports/glib2.0, and I've yet to figure out why they still aren't upstreamed. pkg-config does update their internal glib every once in a while, and I'd prefer not to bother them with Cygwin patches neither upstreamed yet nor needed by Cygwin itself - especially as long as Gentoo Cygwin Prefix is in this early state. So for the time being I prefer to use Cygwin's glib patches for pkg-config's internal glib, and leave upstreaming to the Cygwin->glib road - even if I might probably find myself upstreaming Cygwin->glib anyway. Meanwhile I can keep pkgconfig ebuilds in Prefix overlay if you prefer.
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/prefix.git/commit/?id=e87b0ff0d5640bf6c240876fd983a406fa02dc4c
We should really try and see if Cygwin can just use dev-util/pkgconf instead, which is just c89.
