Bug 279696

Summary:	(minor bug) dev-libs/glib-2.18.4-r1 fails to build because of missing dependency to pkg-config
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Bodo Thiesen <bothie>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Bodo Thiesen 2009-07-30 15:09:25 UTC

Normally, pkg-config is already installed on a system when glib will be installed.

However while I'm currently installing syslog-ng in a stage3, it pulls dev-libs/glib-2.18.4-r1 into the dependency tree which in turn pulls in dev-util/gtk-doc-1.10-r2 (because of the doc USE-flag) which again depends on dev-libs/glib-2.18.4-r1. This is a problem which should be noted in the handbook (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=9).

I simply solved it by »USE="-doc" emerge -1O =dev-libs/glib-2.18.4-r1« now hitting the missing pkg-config (which SHOLD be a build time dependency of glib).

emerge pkgconfig && \
USE="-doc" emerge -1O =dev-libs/glib-2.18.4-r1 && \
emerge glib && \
emerge -av syslog-ng


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-30 15:19:27 UTC

Every dev-lib/glib ebuild currently being in the portage-tree has dev-util/pkgconfig in the DEPEND variable.

Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-30 15:19:51 UTC

erm, I mean dev-libs/glib