[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Bora repositories missing pkg-config?

[From: Michel Salim]

2007/1/11, Janne Kataja <janne.kataja at movial.fi>:
> Michel Salim wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The developer rootfs and the repositories configured with its
> > /etc/apt/sources.list do not have pkg-config; if I follow the
> > recommended steps of doing 'fakeroot apt-get -f install', all the
> > development packages that depend on pkg-config gets scheduled for
> > removal.
> pkg-config is provided by scratchbox devkits.
> The maemo 3.0 installer script will automatically fullfill these
> dependencies by creating and installing empty 'virtual' packages.
> Scratchbox dpkg-buildpackage is patched to take the installed tools into
> account.
>
Ah. How about those of us doing manual installs, though? The installer
script, the last time I used it, had a bug: if my Scratchbox is
installed in an alternate location, when the installer script calls
the binary installer it forgot to pass the custom path.

Thanks,

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