From b8554145f1c1766cc94b7772e0f75a211cfb2379 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 21:43:24 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 15/16] Keep separator spaces in pkg-config declarations.
 Closes #3479.

---
 mesonbuild/modules/pkgconfig.py                 |  6 ++++--
 run_unittests.py                                | 11 +++++++++++
 test cases/unit/31 pkgconfig format/meson.build | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 test cases/unit/31 pkgconfig format/somelib.c   |  5 +++++
 4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test cases/unit/31 pkgconfig format/meson.build
 create mode 100644 test cases/unit/31 pkgconfig format/somelib.c

diff --git a/mesonbuild/modules/pkgconfig.py b/mesonbuild/modules/pkgconfig.py
index a3ba973f..419a14c7 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/modules/pkgconfig.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/modules/pkgconfig.py
@@ -139,8 +139,10 @@ class DependenciesHelper:
         if version_reqs:
             if name not in self.version_reqs:
                 self.version_reqs[name] = set()
-            # We could have '>=1.0' or '>= 1.0', remove spaces to normalize
-            new_vreqs = [s.replace(' ', '') for s in mesonlib.stringlistify(version_reqs)]
+            # Note that pkg-config is picky about whitespace.
+            # 'foo > 1.2' is ok but 'foo>1.2' is not.
+            # foo, bar' is ok, but 'foo,bar' is not.
+            new_vreqs = [s for s in mesonlib.stringlistify(version_reqs)]
             self.version_reqs[name].update(new_vreqs)
 
     def split_version_req(self, s):
diff --git a/run_unittests.py b/run_unittests.py
index ff8d7c66..6773bbd1 100755
--- a/run_unittests.py
+++ b/run_unittests.py
@@ -2983,6 +2983,17 @@ endian = 'little'
             self.init(os.path.join(testdirbase, 'app'))
             self.build()
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(shutil.which('pkg-config') is None, 'Pkg-config not found.')
+    def test_pkgconfig_formatting(self):
+        testdir = os.path.join(self.unit_test_dir, '31 pkgconfig format')
+        self.init(testdir)
+        myenv = os.environ.copy()
+        myenv['PKG_CONFIG_PATH'] = self.privatedir
+        ro = subprocess.run(['pkg-config', '--libs', 'libsomething'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                            env=myenv)
+        self.assertEqual(ro.returncode, 0)
+        self.assertIn(b'-lgobject-2.0', ro.stdout)
+        self.assertIn(b'-lgio-2.0', ro.stdout)
 
 class LinuxArmCrossCompileTests(BasePlatformTests):
     '''
diff --git a/test cases/unit/31 pkgconfig format/meson.build b/test cases/unit/31 pkgconfig format/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bbd3b125
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test cases/unit/31 pkgconfig format/meson.build	
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+project('pkgformat', 'c',
+  version : '1.0')
+
+gio = dependency('gio-2.0', required: false)
+if not gio.found()
+  error('MESON_SKIP_TEST glib not found.')
+endif
+
+pkgg = import('pkgconfig')
+
+l = shared_library('something', 'somelib.c')
+
+pkgg.generate(libraries: l,
+              version: '1.0',
+              name: 'libsomething',
+              description: 'A library that does something',
+              requires: 'gobject-2.0 >= 2.54, gio-2.0 >= 2.54')
diff --git a/test cases/unit/31 pkgconfig format/somelib.c b/test cases/unit/31 pkgconfig format/somelib.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6d876c8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test cases/unit/31 pkgconfig format/somelib.c	
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#include<stdio.h>
+
+int some_func() {
+    return 0;
+}
-- 
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