Re: pkgconfig problem on RHEL-5

2009/1/20 Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart(a)gmail.com&gt;: > 2009/1/20 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik(a)greysector.net&gt;: >> They're not missing. Most probably the .pc file is broken or it's a bug >> in pkg-config. > We are talking about the EL-5 ffmpeg-devel here. > > Nah, this is a bug in ffmpeg-devel package (meant the pc files) > Because they have something like > Requires.private: libraw1394 > > And the ffmpeg-devel doesn't requires libraw1394-devel where the > libraw1394.pc is so it doesn't have any chance to output the requested > information. > > Actually, the current situation avoid the problem in the ffmpeg > pkg-config files by using libs.private with the non-pkgconfig form for > defining used libraries (instead of the pkg-config form using > requires.private). > Well actually it is a little bit more complicated because there is a problem at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=224148 So this remains a ffmpeg-devel problem, but for a different reason: the ffmpeg-devel pkgconfig implementation rely on a version of pkg-config that support the Requires.private , which the EL5 version doesn't features yet. Until this feature is backported, this remains a ffmpeg-devel bug.