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Bug 523910 - Use Requires.private in *.pc-file for pkg-config
Use Requires.private in *.pc-file for pkg-config
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: glibmm
Classification: Bindings
Component: general
2.16.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtkmm-forge
gtkmm-forge
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-03-22 22:08 UTC by Tobias Grimm
Modified: 2008-03-25 02:34 UTC
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Description Tobias Grimm 2008-03-22 22:08:21 UTC
Please describe the problem:
At the moment `pkg-config glibmm-2.4.pc --libs` returns:

   -lglibmm-2.4 -lgobject-2.0 -lsigc-2.0 -lglib-2.0 

...but there is usually no need to link against the extra libs when not linking statically.

Using Requires.private in the *.pc-File helps here:

    - Requires: gobject-2.0 sigc++-2.0
    + Requires.private: gobject-2.0 sigc++-2.0

This way, `pkg-config glibmm-2.4.pc --libs` returns:

    -lglibmm-2.4 

and `pkg-config glibmm-2.4.pc --libs --static` returns:

    -lglibmm-2.4 -lgobject-2.0 -lsigc-2.0 -lglib-2.0

Tobias

Steps to reproduce:
Compile something with "pkg-config glibmm-2.4.pc --libs"

Actual results:
The resulting executable will be linked against libgobject-2.0 and linsigc-2.0, even if it doesn't use any symbols from these libs.

Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Daniel Macks 2008-03-23 17:07:00 UTC
Public headers of glibmm #include headers of glib and sigc++: those packages are required even when compiling in a dynamic environment.
Comment 2 Jonathon Jongsma 2008-03-25 02:34:53 UTC
yeah, I really don't think that we can do that.  These libraries are exposed in the glibmm headers.