pkgconfig can't find libgnomeui on F9

Mamoru Tasaka mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Mon Mar 23 18:32:28 UTC 2009


Braden McDaniel wrote, at 03/24/2009 03:11 AM +9:00:
> I have a package (openvrml) that's failing to build on F-9:
> 
>         http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1254875&name=build.log
> 
> The build log indicates that the pkg-config check for libgnomeui is
> failing.  In configure.ac, that check looks like:
> 
>         PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GNOMEUI], [libgnomeui-2.0 libgnome-2.0 >= 2.14], ,
>                           [have_gnomeui=no])
>         
> The specfile does have:
> 
>         BuildRequires:  libgnomeui-devel >= 2.14
>         
> This is succeeding for F-10 and devel; and it *used* to work for F-9.
> Why would it be failing now?
> 

This is due to pkgconfig change. Now also F-9 pkgconfig tries to check
"Requires.private" for "pkg-config --exists". F-9 libgnomecanvas-2.0.pc
has "gail" in Requires.private, while root.log says "gail-devel" is not
included (note: with old pkgconfig "BR: gail-devel" was not needed)

See:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1255010

Regards,
Mamoru




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