Re: pkgsrc picking up wrong fontconfig

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2019, at 15:35:26 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Building librsvg (for emacs, a different story for a different
> thread!)
> fails on netbsd-8 i386 with:
> 
>   checking for    cairo >= 1.15.12                cairo-png >=
> 1.15.12            freetype2 >= 20.0.14            gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >=
> 2.20  gio-2.0 >= 2.24.0                       glib-2.0 >= 2.48.0 
>                libxml-2.0 >= 2.9.0             pangocairo >=
> 1.38.0            pangoft2 >= 1.38.0                    libcroco-0.6
> >= 0.6.1... no
>   configure: error: Package requirements (        cairo >=
> 1.15.12                cairo-png >= 1.15.12            freetype2 >=
> 20.0.14            gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.20  gio-2.0 >= 2.24.0          
>                glib-2.0 >= 2.48.0              libxml-2.0 >=
> 2.9.0             pangocairo >= 1.38.0            pangoft2 >=
> 1.38.0                    libcroco-0.6 >= 0.6.1) were not met:
> 
>   Package dependency requirement 'fontconfig >= 2.11.91' could not be
> satisfied.
>   Package 'fontconfig' has version '2.11.1', required version is '>=
> 2.11.91'
> 
>   Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>   installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> 
>   Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBRSVG_CFLAGS
>   and LIBRSVG_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
>   See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>   *** Error code 1
> 
> 
> As far as I can tell something must have changed in pkgsrc fairly
> recently, at least since Q2, but it feels like the last two weeks, to
> provoke this -- does anybody know that is?

I'm afraid I don't have a decent answer for you, but I can tell you that
it occurred on or before the 20th, since I was privately emailed about
this around then, and reproduced it then.

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2019/08/21/msg196209.html
I started trying to find the full explanation, but simply haven't had
the time vs. other things. But the pango.pc file now installed by that
package expects fontconfig >= 2.11.91. On its own, I can't say why
that's a problem.

Regards,

Dave