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([2603:6011:3f0:6f00::12ac]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id af79cd13be357-7acde5cdc70sm73191885a.90.2024.09.24.07.31.09 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:31:08 -0400 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: ./configure fails to link test program due to missing dependencies To: Junio C Hamano , Henrik Holst Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" References: Content-Language: en-US From: Eli Schwartz Autocrypt: addr=eschwartz93@gmail.com; keydata= xsFNBFcpfj0BEADkTcFAwHJmtXbR7WHu6qJ3c83ccZl4qjBsU//JEn9yTtfj8M2a3g+lpGAF C/8isGz9InmrqBn1BXQFwcySAkRYuromR5ZPH1HIsv21RTtJbo5wCs8GlvoRYsp5pE7JEIVC RsWixG5pFhinlssUxtm0szlrzfaKanohWDfj+2WuWh4doXJZtTQePCGpouSziButkwkgQMqE U+ubBiTtjF/f/oCyC6YMWx+5knaqNSWxjF52rXAngVD0YYAiJ7o0KOQhrC2RLF+l0x4hRikp QaZrqVL1CaP7gjceOlOZ/zdCOImAaha9ygZiJG652HCIPfsy7uypYwxoMEeldoTnsXbjJXuL fMwIp8dCVbKMhebXdCNIWCjNewusz3I4+JjOO+uPgA+YgHu8+A56tpJ7lmHw5C95XjheXt/N bo9HONG4oeILZ9pQxnx93ocZM6v0W+taoBbPzOLE0al7Oy5vmJwO/QkprDU/TkzPtrgiCKPV Ml/+smp5FXbOjp/Y5UVlFmj2aemDIVAv70RlewAytwQLdGHLv3Au81hq5xrX7JAopEkfhYJY g2+7s78C0VaMPXHw2XyLpj5uPBR2q8KihSaASfhGBH0IcxLd+lEq1+NHT2l/WlQVjRfXHZns k8giW8M12TJZvvm9rpXMAFk7zSmmojp1M/7+ImOTcDYvErW1iQARAQABzSRFbGkgU2Nod2Fy dHogPGVzY2h3YXJ0ejkzQGdtYWlsLmNvbT7CwZQEEwEKAD4CGwMFCwkIBwMFFQoJCAsFFgID AQACHgECF4AWIQS9J7B6XvRcKtr3DgSEgYpoGa9KmwUCYstIWwUJEUVkngAKCRCEgYpoGa9K m50AEACoEoXaBaVerjTGbezOHK8J+GWkDJQ8wetJJfHhBgDq/lypKF+1LmolXAkmJF29ShBx r9zr5n91E1xn4bX53X8NdVAf2r/dFMtzlu0jsl0UcZ6OllpkTBtWqbjNgAI+C/v/lbBVcCz+ irtrRfM/guLNaaUuZlh+Qtt4kdKygP64jhqRude/eD0tAVzXbnka0k2E40dNT8W23SPnbjJh gpZeGeufIf8xFddDdLaqZMuxjDcxqq1jcasPB8M57Vkt5NpTaIvCtO4ZWejoj9im+Onsdvfs 3mCHr1DcIEAYj36/2U8yXzpsdgFXD96WcLFRL3l4ELTAPua3MFNdty6Bf35Yli1Fby4yOnf8 5UQd4SRh1pYqBoBw7uEtY8qOJR+bvqo2XnTrR9HVYBZVrVhFe/CCSxOfm2ZxZn2bzMzoJZ5X jcMNGdkHVcutvgJOIUASnwSoJM4hoVdwRmGgrT1Mu18rkk05+NjElPmGcn9vFZXVddnqvuqd gf4di2xl0adpWgFFSfKeOBjNcPSQqNLjNcJTGVJ0lvlmGcYfyw020IoGu/bBEUpQA12i/4JE N5Qx1frWsvXQ+ioJkFsjydbpWqLR5xI44p1FWU2lwKT4QbtSkgx9sHOec+DIIarwxqDiMXR9 ZhG/Ue7+pXAVD/Zs/XtxXCZQBhl7keIXTmZKTccuYM7BTQRXKX49ARAAo1bWz1d7RvffuaX9 SAOqQEfeEHaRilIKpqU5+yuBSd7vLNF1QPb105cuMJtj0bHhQnqYlToNODAHn9Ug+Axgz3dT +s8j1/mizFLfgpHnWdNr7/a1lMPhmPqtoeEdUAd0bqX94xHedZBtlvhLAwoelNhatJkqbrWc voI9d3RMLA3tPrTxY6aeDTa+5LL8oHeZ04KXlWxQIqxXT+e0JEs+0V9viicYy/8i4DqfObtr jdNOV3cKCW3rmNTATlVmciGY8xHkwM77C67ibFyYOdoYo6IP7EUI1oTBZN1M2A23sSgUlAHP qPFwD38JPiBLYu5pIA3SwDaatTD/+BEdhsiIQsZaWsn0E98Bb0bHfukMvEYFEcwA//HXTVIN SGry/Tc9baIgD0hG8ImDCbR9RfXdz0uzelHypcKGnGB7FLtZ8Vw4swa06CXEGG0Oo5AfYRuU 2bQtFxH66xHEFSfgfpTy5nHTH9Ra1mTtpoDil6rMLq1q43w5XP7oEucZwdZa+hlj2M4I/i+I gcaU+Bd9bQMa2mmvmI7pOFMxCCvprY5fDaRY1v8rKWRg12bD4kYM3npR37rWkk+Zdj+w+XgS oCW0gNT2yHDDMq7H6qYUjyvaG8l0vhWb44rzQLBFfQv/Lc3QI4jUu6e7TbQui3cw5Qn0E+yu 4teV2fIVDbLB8wvRS/8AEQEAAcLBfAQYAQoAJgIbDBYhBL0nsHpe9Fwq2vcOBISBimgZr0qb BQJiy0j1BQkRRWU4AAoJEISBimgZr0qbjUwQAL+qByV+VpVmD3Guqym9uUX/gUmLdLar7ZrM Nr3RnDo/N0Dl2IZpm+eoNGlnBh2+q6bcZUWWoEtbOoy6XrlPnx3Cf+Bg4bFDNN4ibIQkYV2z cU9E1AWadCKUm1Z2eDqjc5TlLZiyUGQUh4kAW2Z3gFe1ffhyKarVExfTSxwE1ec5Q9cy6T29 iO3QjAD3v7R9EXZJIn/RRbsaWQSQLz+DVDZxjy2XcmTGLS3HMIqdYFHYAxUx7HLbCAhfIyD0 TDsMOutl3B2PWENYWmhO6E+USSwPokx461ePqcYG5haqnoUcXGQ2SGtLaoQ2iKGvGAe17xpQ yHK7NGSPWOEmYSJ1bRFJYKoe8+jtesoEY335hyQRn7RbMvTslVUvtVjRYu4FXOwPXT3NLbj8 v+in+Njm1UfuWvOZS695wepBGvDtMM3Ze+ZRB3S7zmo1/eKol1cQQ/abYlX+7TrUbxcQ+bAQ b8PeDaL4sAH77fE6m+3jsMb1CFbN3+LcaUxGV7ysh7kVYVqwhiRqnmF0E3I9z3nyZ9HQgwHt 1jmoa4lMiRDnkkOFdhoJ3vqmxHKW9XtxrUJlLQfTejUSooLFjNe6tvXgrTvrosGTpDZIIT0/ 8qKt4Nxg06u0jmnXMbbWwoPNWl9PfcPtNhjaycocCzfog5LI8N7HbRy+jHmArWAywaZVLrLe In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------ko3jYA7h6adox686MSyPr0es" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --------------ko3jYA7h6adox686MSyPr0es Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------oFgsZSLyeSuM14N2WRVnjWjx"; protected-headers="v1" From: Eli Schwartz To: Junio C Hamano , Henrik Holst Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" Message-ID: Subject: Re: ./configure fails to link test program due to missing dependencies References: In-Reply-To: --------------oFgsZSLyeSuM14N2WRVnjWjx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 9/15/24 12:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Looking at configure.ac, pkg-config is not used for any package. > Specifically for curl, it seems that "curl-config --libs" is used. >=20 > Presumably the reason behind the current behaviour is combination of > (1) ./configure is an after-thought in the build infrastructure for > this project, (2) pkg-config was not ubiquitous back when autoconf > support was written for this project, and (3) nobody considered > "upgrading" our use of "curl-config" and our manual detection of > dependency detection for other libraries to just use "pkg-config". >=20 > Patches welcome ;-) As an aside: I am skeptical of this explanation. pkg-config's first git commit in 2005 is an import of a 2001 commit from another version control system (probably GNU Arch -- author "Arch Librarian"). The changelog it includes starts a year earlier, in 2000. Wikipedia agrees, claiming the initial release of pkg-config was in 2000 and citing gtk-devel mailing list discussions from June of that year. git added a configure.ac script 6 years later. Curl itself had installed a .pc file for 7 months at that time, and OpenSSL had installed one for nearly 4 years. But git's configure script looked -- and still looks -- for -lcurl only to set NO_CURL for the Makefile. In 2018, ./configure started using curl-config, in order to set CURL_LDFLAGS. I suppose it was copied by rote from the Makefile, which has less flexibility to try pkg-config and fall back to curl-config. Part 1 of the explanation is valid: ./configure was an after-thought. :) --=20 Eli Schwartz Gentoo Developer and Meson Build maintainer --------------oFgsZSLyeSuM14N2WRVnjWjx-- --------------ko3jYA7h6adox686MSyPr0es Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="OpenPGP_signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="OpenPGP_signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAEBCgB9FiEEYEETBMCdNmKDQO7/zrFn77VyK9YFAmbyzSxfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDYw NDExMzA0QzA5RDM2NjI4MzQwRUVGRkNFQjE2N0VGQjU3MjJCRDYACgkQzrFn77Vy K9atihAAiXXLfgMOa0za2PmcsNmlQK6nmr8UENsXGpqs8q1AYptNnMWMwRanhfiS JBdNxAJiA0jKcDXxrgd4OcgjGGer6rK5Vkpn250pBSdMI1paG29hxGRGfcWE7Buk pTcmPAI3DkY1fZ3oKQxAsAEbkTRLCJTxKoom3ep5gNo/DPPiAyhKkFqs9acQIFja rpjHxMEuhIYcvfl8d1+aQ2Hi0jqdbAXy1aPSPaRCkvh59amaF/JvTsxdJjLScDT9 C6wjYGMR8gIhF9PgaBB4XKWBSM/l3LxHPRP1J6FuXEz0EdzEs0lBVtoz1Z+hfh1K L0KB6DPJL9jyhtCGxXV+XmOAyeO4Y7Cri5Vr1luya2cXTUoj7/n/jRcMY6uQ80W4 4/pEk2U7nJUFjmNqQq8RMQ4JttmXNY8nduf/Xgs5sOujiFkatWy3+oam4zfgzlbv EldS5jpFLNk6lySFvNe78JbnR2HCzLwTHYwqslwujNkxzIN0y6w3A9mtySHvsipD QxLoc4XZqXoveiMwEpCKTFPsdRztvnufwgZ5jQ5i5v+k7x6pwjfp8qqsAveFxihO Rl1aaQJRMDdCAc6X9xPXDqk8OVHRePx/clwpW9ky4o9lPZKRxmgtUs6p6Rvj3SA3 BSt0wlrDB1FuVW+bpOc8Ufkw6qXZWNwT6b339vykN46inkAoMfo= =tLRL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------ko3jYA7h6adox686MSyPr0es--