Subject: Re: pkgconfig and pkgviews
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/27/2004 14:37:13
After a quick look, it seems that it's just missing an include of pkgconfig's
buildlink3.mk file.  It is required to let it find .pc files in the buildlink
dir.  Hmm... "fast" bl3ifications...

Cheers



On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:20:05 -0700 (PDT)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:

> I received the following when trying to build wm/obconf:
> 
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/pkg/bin/pkg-config
> checking for obrender-3.0 obparser-3.0... gnome-config: not found
> gnome-config: not found
> Package obrender-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `obrender-3.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'obrender-3.0' found
> 
> configure: error: Library requirements (obrender-3.0 obparser-3.0) not
> met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your
> libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> bmake: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/wm/obconf
> 
> 
> I do have /usr/pkg/lib/pkgconfig/obrender-3.0.pc.
> 
> I have:
> 
> $ /usr/pkg/bin/pkg-config --version
> 0.15.0
> 
> 
> reed@tahoma:/usr/pkgsrc/wm/obconf$ /usr/pkg/bin/pkg-config --print-errors
> --debug --exists "obrender-3.0 obparser-3.0"
> Option --debug seen
> Option --exists seen
> Error printing disabled by default, value of --print-errors: 1
> Error printing enabled
> Scanning directory '/usr/pkg/packages/pkgconfig-0.15.0/lib/pkgconfig'
> Ignoring file '.' in search directory; not a .pc file
> Ignoring file '..' in search directory; not a .pc file
> Looking for package 'obrender-3.0'
> Looking for package 'obrender-3.0-uninstalled'
> Looking for 'obrender-3.0' using legacy -config scripts
> Calling gnome-config
> gnome-config: not found
> Package obrender-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `obrender-3.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'obrender-3.0' found
> 
> 
> I am not using pkgviews for obconf (because XFree86-libs is not pkviews
> enabled yet), but pkgviews was used to install pkgconfig.
> 
> Notice below the "Scanning directory"
> 
> $ /usr/pkg/bin/pkg-config --print-errors
> --debug --exists "obrender-3.0 obparser-3.0"
> Option --debug seen
> Option --exists seen
> Error printing disabled by default, value of --print-errors: 1
> Error printing enabled
> Scanning directory '/usr/pkg/packages/pkgconfig-0.15.0/lib/pkgconfig'
> Ignoring file '.' in search directory; not a .pc file
> Ignoring file '..' in search directory; not a .pc file
> Looking for package 'obrender-3.0'
> Looking for package 'obrender-3.0-uninstalled'
> Looking for 'obrender-3.0' using legacy -config scripts
> Calling gnome-config
> gnome-config: not found
> Package obrender-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `obrender-3.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'obrender-3.0' found
> 
> That /usr/pkg/packages/pkgconfig-0.15.0/lib/pkgconfig/ directory is empty.
> 
> The real directory:
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/pkg/lib/pkgconfig/ | wc -l
>       35
> 
> 
> So looking at pkgconfig source code, if the environment variable is not
> set it defaults to PKGLIBDIR which is pkglibdir (in Makefile) which is
> $(libdir)/@PACKAGE@ (in Makefile.in)
> 
> That Makefile.in should be patched to be ${LOCALBASE}/lib/@PACKAGE@ or
> use "configure --libdir=${LOCALBASE}/lib"
> 
> Any thoughts on this?
> 
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
> 
> 


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