Problem with pkg-config with Windows/MinGW

[Christian Stimming]

Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 schrieb Derek Atkins:
> >> The first problem I encountered was that some of the URLs in defined
> >> in the default.sh file are no longer updated,
> >
> > That's true until a week ago, when we updated most of the URLs to
> > their current version numbers - in our SVN version. Did you start from
> > a gnucash source package? You should rather checkout SVN trunk
> > directly, http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Subversion
> 
> I wonder if we should keep copies of our dependencies available
> somewhere on our own server so that people who DO grab source trees can
> rebuild?

I think this introduces unnecessary source code doubling. I think the cause of 
Ronald's problem was a too long period of not upgrading our version numbers in 
packaging/win32. Maybe we should add a comment to the error messages there 
saying in case the versions are outdated by now, the user should feel free to 
inform us about the current versions? But except for things which are 
difficult to obtain (e.g. libpq binary), I think we shouldn't deal with the 
hassle of hosting the source code packages for even more dependencies.

Regards,

Christian