From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,46f1af367ca05806 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.in2p3.fr!in2p3.fr!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed2.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!news.cc.tut.fi!not-for-mail From: Tero Koskinen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [blog] Why I hate Gtk+/GNOME (from the perspective of an Ada supporter) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:39:43 +0200 Message-ID: <20080123183943.762fd84e.tero.koskinen@iki.fi> References: <479700d6$1@news.post.ch> <4aa2165e-b3a1-42a4-b5db-fdc39d7d67fd@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip154.otanner14.opintanner.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.cc.tut.fi 1201106383 14680 195.148.53.154 (23 Jan 2008 16:39:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tut.fi NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:39:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 2.4.5 (GTK+ 2.12.2; i386-unknown-openbsd4.2) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19563 Date: 2008-01-23T18:39:43+02:00 List-Id: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:22:09 -0800 (PST) Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Martin Krischik wrote: > > Hi, > > > > http://ada-programming.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-i-hate-gtkgnome.html > > It seems you forgot to read pkg-config/README.Win32; it says: > "On Unix, pkg-config is built using its own copy of GLib 1.2.8. On > Windows, we use the normal GLib available for Windows (2.0.x). Yes, > this does introduce a kind of circular dependency. OpenBSD people have reimplemented pkg-config using Perl. You can probably port it to Windows/Linux/Solaris/etc if you want to avoid the circular dependency. (I am assuming that Perl doesn't depend on glib/pkg-config or you can get binary version easily.) See http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/pkg-config/ -- Tero Koskinen - http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/