The following reply was made to PR pkg/34505; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: georg.schwarz@freenet.de
Subject: Re: pkg/34505: pkgsrc/x11/gtk2 needs gnome-config to configure
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:49:27 +0200

 On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:45:00 +0000 (UTC)
 georg.schwarz@freenet.de wrote:
 
 > >Description:
 > pkgsrc/x11/gtk2 has ha compile timr requirement for gnome-config
 > which is supplied by pkgsrc/x11/gnome-libs. However x11/gtk2 does not
 > directly or indirectly depend on x11/gnome-libs.
 
 Nope, you are wrong.
 
 The thing you are seing is the big switch case in pkg-config's code, and
 clearly if it tries to use gnome-config is because your pkg-config
 cannot find the .pc file in any of the directories that pkg-config uses.
 
 Look in pkg-config's code for more information. 
 
 Please close this PR.