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| -rw-r--r-- | libbuild2/cc/pkgconfig.cxx | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libbuild2/cc/pkgconfig.cxx b/libbuild2/cc/pkgconfig.cxx index 8b064d1..acf8266 100644 --- a/libbuild2/cc/pkgconfig.cxx +++ b/libbuild2/cc/pkgconfig.cxx @@ -1809,6 +1809,20 @@ namespace build2 fail << "no version variable in project " << n << info << "while generating " << p; + // When comparing versions, pkg-config uses RPM semantics, which is + // basically comparing each all-digit/alpha fragments in order. + // This means, for example, a semver with a pre-release will be + // compared incorrectly (pre-release will be greater than the final + // version). We could detect if this project uses stdver and chop + // off any pre-release information (so, essentially only saving the + // major.minor.patch part). But that means such .pc files will + // contain inaccurate version information. And seeing that we don't + // recommend using pkg-config (rather primitive) package dependency + // support, having complete version information for documentation + // seems more important. + // + // @@ Maybe still makes sense to only save version.project_id? + // const string& v (cast<string> (vl)); os << "Name: " << n << endl; |