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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: [blog] Why I hate Gtk+/GNOME (from the perspective of an Ada
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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:40:25 +0100
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Tero Koskinen schrieb:
> 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.)

In fact - perl is part of MSYS - the MinGW developers package.

Martin
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