Posts by lukeshu@social.coop
 (DIR) Post #B6WyQTatr956pMO3iC by lukeshu@social.coop
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       @ariadne @mjg59 Eh, valid-but-unusual settings in resolv.conf will make musl generate invalid DNS packets. You win some, you lose some.(Edit: I assume; it was WONTFIX in 2018 or 2019, so I assume they kept their word and haven't fixed it, but it's been long enough that I should probably re-check.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B9H9HZwhDXCl6Z42nA by lukeshu@social.coop
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       @ariadne No. I've seen you at the past 2 FOSSYs, we spoke last year but I don't think we spoke this year. Prior to your toots today I had no inkling that you might be plural.
       
 (DIR) Post #B9c2WvVkGMBBwdqzDM by lukeshu@social.coop
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       @ariadne fwiw, and this was a few years ago so I imagine the pkgconf codebase has changed quite a bit, I wanted to modify pkgconf so that it could tell me the value of a variable for each of a list of packages, the way that FDO pkg-config does, but in maybe 20 minutes of looking at the codebase I couldn't make enough sense of the program flow to figure out how.
       
 (DIR) Post #B9c8DOCWU4TQrHvhi4 by lukeshu@social.coop
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       @ariadne `pkgconf --variable=girdir pkg1 pkg2 pkg3` prints a deduped-list of the girdirs set by those packages. FDO `pkg-config --variable=girdir pkg1 pkg2 pkg3` prints "{pkg1.girdir:-} {pkg2.girdir:-} {pkg3.girdir:-}\n"; I can tell what the variable is for each package separately. If I want to do what with pkgconf I need to do a separate invocation for each package.
       
 (DIR) Post #B9do06SLXPQbIBdcnI by lukeshu@social.coop
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       @ariadne I just checked, and `--verbose` doesn't help here. But to be clear I'm not asking for help with pkgconf, I'm just sharing an anecdote of a time when a competent C programmer had trouble modifying pkgconf :)I imagine there were very few programs that relied on this behavior of pkg-config (it was undocumented, though the source code indicated to me that it was intentional), and that they have all been long updated to just make multiple calls to pkgconf.
       
 (DIR) Post #B9foGWzR2hQaXCru8u by lukeshu@social.coop
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       @ariadne cc @diamond regarding pkgconf use by gotk4