Bug#907306: configure: error: gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders not found in path

[Michael Biebl]

On 8/26/18 12:50, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Looking at librsvg, it seems we might be able to reinstate
> gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders in libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev but rename it to
> $(DEB_HOST_ARCH)-gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders, and then change librsvg to
> use AC_CHECK_TOOL instead of AC_PATH_PROGS; or install
> gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders in /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) instead of
> /usr/bin, then add that to PATH when building librsvg. That would mean
> we can't cross-compile librsvg on a build machine that can't run host
> binaries, but we'd still be able to cross-compile other gdk-pixbuf users.

Why exactly so we need gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders?
Looking at
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/librsvg/blob/debian/master/gdk-pixbuf-loader/Makefile.am

it seems we require it for two cases:
a/ It's used in the rsvg-loader test
b/ It's called during make install

b/ is handled by triggers in Debian and already conditionalized by DESTDIR

So maybe an alternative could be to simply skip building the rsvg-loader
test.

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