[AVRO-2989] libsnappy has no pkg-config file

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: c
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: B
• Created: 23/Nov/20 19:02
• Updated: 29/Jan/24 09:04

Description

Google explicitly is not supporting pkg-config: https://github.com/google/snappy/pull/86

But CMakeLists.txt does this:

set(SNAPPY_PKG libsnappy)

And later SNAPPY_PKG is what ends up in the pkg-config `Requires` section.

The end result is that `pkg-config --exists` will always fail, since the Require'd package is (almost never) around, unless package managers or users went and manually added one.

Note that this (softly) requires https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2987 to be fixed first – without that fix, the whole Requires: section isn't really working in the first place.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1020