Re: GNU poke 3.90.2 link error due to libbnd

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 06:36:07PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> > Thanks Eric Blake for alerting me to this message:
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/poke-devel/2024-02/msg00028.html
> > 
> > I'm unclear if this is a bug in libnbd or elsewhere?
> 
> It's primarily a shortcoming in pkg-config.
> 
> > Does it need an adjustment in libnbd upstream to work correctly?
> 
> In the short term, you could help the users of libnbd by adding the attached
> file in the libnbd distribution and installing it in $PREFIX/share/aclocal/.
> In the long term, use the PKG_CHECK_MODULES replacement from Gnulib, when it
> becomes available.

What I've done temporarily is to add it as a contrib/ file for now,
until I can discuss this with the project comaintainers.

https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd/-/commit/48b2ec3d7162a70d962331c2baaf7a82d0974475

Thanks,

Rich.

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