[bug #58260] Fix pkg-config bug in basic.mk

[Boud Roukema]

URL:
  <https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?58260>

                 Summary:  Fix pkg-config bug in basic.mk
                 Project: Reproducible paper template
            Submitted by: boud
            Submitted on: Mon 27 Apr 2020 03:21:35 PM UTC
                Category: Software
                Severity: 5 - Blocker
              Item Group: None
                  Status: Works For Me
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Until commit 3409a54 from yesterday, pkg-config was found
correctly in `reproduce/software/make/basic.mk` by searching for
`pkg`. However, commit a21ea20 made an improvement in the regular
expression for relating package names and download filenames, and
the string `pkg-config` with the new regex no longer simplifies
to `pkg`. The result of this was that the basic.mk could not find
`pkg-config` in the list of packages, since it was still listed as
`pkg`. This blocked downloading for a system without pkg-config
preloaded.

With this commit of just a few bytes, the bug appears to be
fixed:
https://codeberg.org/boud/maneage_dev/commit/5231441ec26763f6c8631d172a81db1f95853c94

The fix is in the branch fix_pkgconfig_bug at codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/boud/maneage_dev/branches/

It should be possible to reproduce the bug by removing all 
signs of pkg-config/pkgconfig being installed in the system,
including its tarball, and trying `./project configure --existing-conf`.





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