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| author | LRN <lrn1986@gmail.com> | 2012-05-18 05:34:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@gmail.com> | 2012-05-18 09:14:08 -0700 |
| commit | a80fbc52004feb6a7d84de87dde809c9ed5d66cd (patch) | |
| tree | b31e0e8be70a0b159b53da785e719ece79c9dd76 /README.win32 | |
| parent | d415d9171390bab1f1601641cc0053ab98c1fdd8 (diff) | |
| download | pkg-config-a80fbc52004feb6a7d84de87dde809c9ed5d66cd.tar.gz | |
Fix win32 README
A simple documentation fix (reflecting the fact that pkg-config is not
being built against glib-1.2 anymore).
Diffstat (limited to 'README.win32')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.win32 | 12 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 04ea456..fb84e8f 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -37,16 +37,4 @@ site. This works as long as the .pc file uses the variable name "prefix" for its installation prefix. At least GLib, ATK, Pango and GTK does this. -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. But, that can be -worked around. The circular dependency only appears if one uses the -configure mechanism to build GLib. GLib's configure script checks for -pkg-config. pkg-config depends on GLib. Thus, starting from scratch, -with no GLib and no pkg-config, using configure, there would indeed be -a Catch-22 situation. However, GLib can be built just fine using the -manually written makefiles for mingw or MSVC. And if somebody does -want to build GLib on Win32 using configure, she can first install a -prebuilt pkgconfig. - --Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi> |