CRUX

Roadmap for version 3.5 Expand all | Collapse all

0% of 1 tasks completed. 1 open tasks:

FS#1667 - Replacing pkg-config with pkgconf Expand Collapse

Recently Arch replaced[1] pkg-config with pkgconf[2], an implementation of pkg-config that is actively maintained. I think CRUX should do the same.

pkgconf is reportedly both faster and has saner behavior[3][4]. Moreover it doesn't have circular dependency on glib.
I have been using pkgconf as a pkg-config replacement[5] on my machines for the past ~2 years without any problems.

[1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2018-May/029252.html
[2] https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf/
[3] https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf#comparison-of-pkgconf-and-pkg-config-dependency-resolvers
[4] https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf/wiki/Roadmap#advocacy-with-distributions
[5] https://github.com/6c37/crux-ports-dropin/tree/master/pkgconf