Meson: Should use generator for all pc files
Submitted by Xavier Claessens @xclaesse
Link to original bug (#794603)
Description
Currently gstreamer-*-1.0.pc are created using a .pc.in listing dependencies manually. That's error prone.
Meson has a generator that automatically pull dependencies from a library() object and generate the .pc for it.
I'm going to depend on a yet to be merged PR in meson:
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/3284
Version: 1.12.x
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@xclaessesubmitted a patch:Patch 370021, "Meson: Use pc file generator":
Meson-Use-pc-file-generator.patch@xclaessesubmitted a patch:Patch 370636, "Meson: Use pc file generator for libs in core":
Meson-Use-pc-file-generator-for-libs-in-core.patch@xclaessesubmitted a patch:Patch 370637, "Meson: Use pc file generator for libs in bad":
Meson-Use-pc-file-generator-for-libs-in-bad.patch@xclaessesubmitted a patch:Patch 370638, "Meson: Use pc file generator for libs in base":
Meson-Use-pc-file-generator-for-libs-in-base.patch@xclaessesubmitted a patch:Patch 370639, "Meson: Use pc file generator for libs in core":
Meson-Use-pc-file-generator-for-libs-in-core.patch@xclaessesubmitted a patch:Patch 370640, "Meson: Use pc file generator for libs in core":
Meson-Use-pc-file-generator-for-libs-in-core.patch@xclaessesubmitted a patch:Patch 370641, "Meson: Use pc file generator for libs in base":
Meson-Use-pc-file-generator-for-libs-in-base.patch@xclaessesubmitted a patch:Patch 370642, "Meson: Use pc file generator for libs in bad":
Meson-Use-pc-file-generator-for-libs-in-bad.patch
@tpmsaid:The descriptions are gone now, or more generic like 'gstreamer: gstnet-1.0'.
It also seems that we now no longer create -uninstalled.pc files, which is something Guillaume and others wanted to maintain, so you can build gst with meson and still link against it with autotools, see bug 776810.
I don't particularly mind dropping this, but it should be a conscious and considered decision then :)
@xclaessesaid:(In reply to Tim-Philipp Müller from comment 10)
The descriptions are gone now, or more generic like 'gstreamer: gstnet-1.0'.
What's the use of those descriptions anyway? If it's important it can be copy pasted, just easy boring task given the number of PC files we have.
It also seems that we now no longer create -uninstalled.pc files, which is
something Guillaume and others wanted to maintain, so you can build gst with
meson and still link against it with autotools, see bug 776810.I haven't looked how uninstalled PC files are different, could need support in meson generator.
@xclaessesaid:Opened an issue on meson to gen uninstalled pc files:
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/3472Meson should already have all the info needed to build against an uninstalled library it built, so it makes sense for it to generate the pc file, IMO.
@nirbheeksaid:Note that gst-build currently uses *-uninstalled.pc files, so that would need to be fixed somehow before this is merged. Either by merging that Meson PR, or by changing gst-uninstalled.py to use an alternative method of making .pc files available and usable in the environment.
