Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/pkg-config

[John Marino <mfl-commissioner%marino.st@localhost>]

On 8/13/2012 13:32, Greg Troxel wrote:
> "Matthias Scheler"<tron%netbsd.org@localhost>  writes:
>
> > Module Name:    pkgsrc
> > Committed By:   tron
> > Date:           Mon Aug 13 07:50:39 UTC 2012
> >
> > Modified Files:
> >         pkgsrc/devel/pkg-config: Makefile
> >
> > Log Message:
> > Add dependence on "gettext-lib" package. This fixes the build under
> > Mac OS X Lion, no changes under NetBSD/amd64 6.0_BETA2. Bump package
> > revision because the binary package might have changed on some platforms.
>
> I wonder if this is really the right thing, and if you're sure that
> gettext-lib doesn't use pkg-config.   It seems that something like
> pkg-config  should be built disabling all sorts of things like gettext,
> so that it has minimal dependencies (and humans almost never use it
> anyway, so i18n seems more likely to mess up scripts than be helpful).

Greg, I wondered the same thing.
The issue is that the intl, msgfmt is currently required in the 
configuration.  NLS or whatever is requiring it should be disabled, but 
currently it's not.  So the gettext-lib and msgfmt are required until 
pkg-config is configured differently.

However, I confirm 100% that gettext-lib is needed on platforms that 
don't have it natively.  We've seen two such platforms this morning already.

John