pkg-config --cflags behaves different than freedesktops pkg-config #41

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2012-09-05T09:15:48Z

ncopa commented

2012-09-05 09:15:48 +00:00

(Migrated from github.com)

I am not sure if this is a bug really, but I am reporting it here for the record as it has influence on how some packages are built.

With freedesktop's pkg-config there is a single space returned:

echo "flags='(pkg-config --cflags lua)'"
flags=' '

With pkgconf that space is missing.

rrdtool has a pretty stupid configure script:

   if test "$LUA_CFLAGS" = ""; then
      ...

which will result in a different result than freedesktop's pkg-config.

I am not sure how close you want follow freedesktops pkg-config.

I am not sure if this is a bug really, but I am reporting it here for the record as it has influence on how some packages are built. With freedesktop's pkg-config there is a single space returned: > $ echo "flags='$(pkg-config --cflags lua)'" > flags=' ' With pkgconf that space is missing. rrdtool has a pretty stupid configure script: > ``` > if test "$LUA_CFLAGS" = ""; then > ... > ``` which will result in a different result than freedesktop's pkg-config. I am not sure how close you want follow freedesktops pkg-config.

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