pkgconfig should depend on pkgconf

[jhpalmieri]

As the summary says.

If I run "make numpy" on a system without its own pkg-config, the build fails. If I install Sage's pkgconf first, it works. numpy depends on pkgconfig, the Python interface to pkgconf, but pkgconfig really only makes sense if pkgconf (or a system-wide equivalent) is available.

Component: build

Author: John Palmieri

Branch/Commit: ba07bfb

Reviewer: Matthias Koeppe

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/29449

[jhpalmieri]

Branch: u/jhpalmieri/numpy-depends-on-pkgconf

[jhpalmieri]

New commits:

eb136ae

trac 29449: numpy should depend on pkgconf

[jhpalmieri]

Commit: eb136ae

[mkoeppe]

comment:3

Shouldn't rather pkgconfig depend on pkgconf?

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Changed commit from eb136ae to ba07bfb

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Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. This was a forced push. New commits:

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trac 29449: pkgconfig should depend on pkgconf

[jhpalmieri]

comment:5

Logically that makes sense, but I only see the problem with numpy. (pkgconfig doesn't need pkgconf or a system-wide pkg-config to build, but it needs it to do anything.)

[mkoeppe]

comment:6

Replying to @jhpalmieri:

Logically that makes sense, but I only see the problem with numpy. (pkgconfig doesn't need pkgconf or a system-wide pkg-config to build, but it needs it to do anything.)

Right. Because pkgconfig is a very small package, I don't think we need to distinguish its build-time and run-time dependencies. Adding the dependency there is clearer, even if right now only numpy exposes the problem.

[mkoeppe]

Reviewer: Matthias Koeppe

[jhpalmieri]

comment:7

Great, thanks!

[vbraun]

Changed branch from u/jhpalmieri/numpy-depends-on-pkgconf to ba07bfb