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Re: Problem with pkgconfig source https redirect
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Efraim Flashner |
Subject: |
Re: Problem with pkgconfig source https redirect |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:43:44 +0200 |
On Tue, 09 Feb 2016 20:56:59 -0600
Christopher W Carpenter <address@hidden> wrote:
> Talked about this on IRC davexunit, but there appears to be a circular
> dependency
> issue with gnutls and pkg-config now that pkg-config needs to be
> downloaded via https.
>
[snip]
>
> davexunit on #guix mentioned that this may need to be solved using a
> minimal build of gnutls that doesn't require pkg-config for https
> downloads but i'm a bit out of my depth here so I'm just reporting :).
>
> I am happy to do some grunt work once the project decides what direction
> to go.
>
> Thanks,
> Christopher Carpenter
>
Another option is to try to build gnutls without pkg-config and as part of
the configure phase manually tell it where to find the dependencies. IIRC we
do that with some of the less complicated lower level packages.
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