Re: built-in libarchive

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

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.
 Thomas