Bug 99809 – x11-xorg should provide a x11.pc to be compatible with freedesktop.org compliant applications

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Jordan Crouse 2005-07-21 09:10:14 UTC]

The freedesktop.org standard provides for a x11.pc that is installed as part of
the autotoolized Xlibs package, and many newer fd.o applications depend on that
pkgconfig file existing.

Even though we use the Xorg monolithic tree, there is little incremental cost in
providing a x11.pc clone that can be marked up directly in the ebuild.  
See here for the x11.pc.in from fd.o CVS:

http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xlibs/X11/x11.pc.in?rev=1.5&view=markup


Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-07-21 09:44:29 UTC]

These will all be provided in the 7.0 release and RC's for it. If you have an
urgent need, you can try out my initial ebuilds at
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/x-modular/ -- all the distfiles are up there
too, and the packages now install to /opt/fdo/.

We're not really interested in diverging from upstream to the extent of
providing a long list of pkg-config files and hacking around with them in the
ebuild (or even one -- it's been done before, and it is a huge hack). But if
you'd like to file an upstream bug at bugs.freedesktop.org, we'll be happy to
add patches as soon as it hits Xorg CVS.

If you do file an upstream bug, please post the URL here. Such a bug would
likely request that the monolithic Xorg tree provide pkg-config files to be
consistent with the modular tree.

[Comment 2 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-11-20 21:18:57 UTC]

Modular's in the tree now, so this functionality exists.

[Comment 3 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-11-20 21:19:09 UTC]

Marking as fixed.