Re: built-in libarchive

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 11:25:56AM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 11:10:54AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:03:40AM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > > If a platform provides libarchive, pkgsrc will correctly use it
> > > rather than archivers/libarchive. If a package is silly enough to use
> > > PKG_CHECK_MODULES instead of AC_CHECK_LIBS (unfortunately there is a
> > > lot of it about), the libarchive provided by NetBSD won't be found. I
> > > tried fiddling src/external/bsd/libarchive/lib/libarchive/Makefile to
> > > generate and install a /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libarchive.pc file, but it
> > > seems that pkgsrc doesn't look in /usr/lib/pkgconfig. Any thoughts on
> > > what The Right Way is?
> > 
> > Fake a pc file using builtin.mk like devel/zlib/builtin.mk does.
> 
> The attached cargo culted patch works for me, but any comments on:

committed

Patrick