Bug 23801

Summary:	Generated libcomp.pc in git appears to have no purpose
Product:	pixman	Reporter:	Gaetan Nadon <memsize>
Component:	pixman	Assignee:	Gaetan Nadon <memsize>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Søren Sandmann Pedersen <soren.sandmann>
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	lowest	CC:	peter.hutterer
Version:	git master	Keywords:	janitor
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Attachments:	[PATCH] Remove unused generated libcomp.pc #23801

Description Gaetan Nadon 2009-09-08 17:20:40 UTC

Typically generated files are not checked in git, but there could be exceptions. This file is not installed in lib/pkgconfig so it cannot be seen by any other module. 

It's not a big issue, but it will hinder some work in the future because it is the only .pc file in git in X.Org . I am including a patch to remove it, if it is the right course of action. Feel free to keep it if it has some purpose that isn't obvious.

I noticed Debian distro removed it:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.x/59979

Comment 1 Gaetan Nadon 2009-09-08 17:23:11 UTC

Created attachment 29343 [details] [review]
[PATCH] Remove unused generated libcomp.pc #23801

Comment 2 Søren Sandmann Pedersen 2009-09-09 11:40:45 UTC

No, this file dates from the very early days of pixman, where I considered calling it libcomp. It has not ever served a purpose.

Fixed in fefe2a5d24591846281bb9bf0e85d42822e1716e.

Thanks,

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