Bug 2172

Summary:	--atleast-pkgconfig-version and --define-variable weirdness
Product:	pkg-config	Reporter:	dave benson <daveb>
Component:	src	Assignee:	Scott James Remnant <scott>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description dave benson 2004-12-29 14:53:46 UTC

I'm trying to set PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config --define-variable=prefix=/whatever" but
it's not working because of a option parsing issue.

Basically,
  pkg-config --define-variable=foo=bar --atleast-pkgconfig-version=0.0.9
works (succeeds with the latest pkgconfig), but if you omit the second '=',
then
  pkg-config --define-variable=foo=bar --atleast-pkgconfig-version 0.0.9
fails!

If pkg.m4 didn't use the no-= version, then this problem would not affect me.
So a patch that merely changes that might be good (for users of older pkgconfig
versions).

Maybe upgrading popt in pkg-config would fix the problem...

Comment 1 Tollef Fog Heen 2005-04-02 01:46:49 UTC

You can drop the =, so it'll be 

--define-variable foo=bar

It seems popt doesn't support mixing = and non-= options in the same command line.

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