Re: Dropping indirect dependencies from libgnutls-config --libs

[Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:42:12PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> It is also used to compile contrib modules that are included in the
> distribution. If you started using pkg-config you'd have introduced a
> build dependancy on a GPL'd program in a BSD licenced package, not
> exactly a good idea.

This issue was discussed when X.org decided to use pkg-config (they
didn't want to depend on a GPLed program either), and there is a
MIT-licensed pkg-config reimplementation available at
http://ktown.kde.org/~zrusin/pkg-config.tar.bz2

I've never tried it but it should be command-line compatible with the
original pkg-config. Maybe someone could package it for Debian to solve
the license concerns.

Gabor

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