Bug 185421

Summary:	pkg-config --list-all fails due to xfont.pc needing fontenc.pc
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nick Lamb <redhat>
Component:	libXfont	Assignee:	X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
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Description Nick Lamb 2006-03-14 17:06:33 UTC

Description of problem:

pkg-config --list-all fails with the error:
Package fontenc was not found in the pkg-config search path.

It turns out, with debugging enabled, that this occurs because the package
'libXfont-devel' installs a pkg-config xfont.pc file which includes the line:
Requires.private: fontenc freetype2

Yet, libXfont-devel does not have a dependency on libfontenc-devel, and so this
cannot work.

So far as I can see, either (1) libXfont-devel needs a dependency on
libfontenc-devel OR (2) the pkg-config configuration xfont.pc should be edited
to remove this dependency from the build process.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2006-03-16 06:17:30 UTC

The Requires.private stuff is only used when static linking I believe, however
we only ship the dynamic libraries.  So, while Requires.private is still
relevent, it isn't used by anything in practice as far as I'm aware.

I'm more inclined to add an additional (and possibly unnecessary) dependency
on fontenc/freetype2 though than to patch the upstream *.pc files and keep
forked versions of them in our tree.

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2006-06-06 03:18:25 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 185778 ***