Bug 584316

Summary:	dev-util/pkgconfig: patch internal glib for Cygwin
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Haubenwallner (RETIRED) <haubi>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Freedesktop bugs <freedesktop-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	315803
Attachments:	patch internal glib for Cygwin

Description Michael Haubenwallner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-05-27 11:36:31 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-05-28 11:19:47 UTC

Wouldn't be possible to try to report this to upstream to for not needing to carry this patch forever?

Thanks

Comment 2 Michael Haubenwallner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-11-16 11:15:52 UTC

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.

Comment 3 Michael Haubenwallner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-11-16 14:52:33 UTC

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/prefix.git/commit/?id=e87b0ff0d5640bf6c240876fd983a406fa02dc4c

Comment 4 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2021-01-06 10:24:50 UTC

We should really try and see if Cygwin can just use dev-util/pkgconf instead, which is just c89.