Fix output when there are no --cflags or --libs to report #46

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ariadne · 2012-10-14T05:04:22Z

blueness commented

2012-10-14 05:04:22 +00:00

(Migrated from github.com)

When pkgconf parses a package for its --cflags or --libs and finds none, it returns nothing. In contrast, pkg-config [1] returns a single blank char. Packages, like rrdtool [2], assume this latter behavior and fail to configure with pkgconf.

Refs.
[1] http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki/
[2] http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/

X-Gentoo-Bug: 431170
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431170
Signed-of-by: Anthony G. Basile blueness@gentoo.org

When pkgconf parses a package for its --cflags or --libs and finds none, it returns nothing. In contrast, pkg-config [1] returns a single blank char. Packages, like rrdtool [2], assume this latter behavior and fail to configure with pkgconf. Refs. [1] http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki/ [2] http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ X-Gentoo-Bug: 431170 X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431170 Signed-of-by: Anthony G. Basile blueness@gentoo.org

blueness commented

2012-10-14 05:07:41 +00:00

(Migrated from github.com)

Patch is at https://431170.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=326506