Re: circular dependency between glib and pkg-config

[Dieter Verfaillie <dieterv optionexplicit be>]

On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:45:46 -0600, Stuart Ambler wrote:
> Hi.  If no one here has looked into developments with pkg-config 0.26
> (see
>
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.package-management.pkg-config/620
> ), I hope someone will.  Apparently pkg-config used to contain within
> it an old version of glib, used mostly for strings, lists, hash
> tables, and a few other things, that the new version has removed and
> instead made itself depend on glib.  glib documentation, on the other
> hand, says that glib is dependent on pkg-config.

FYI: Earnie Boyd just posted about this on 
mingw-users list sourceforge net:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/37671

mvg,
Dieter