Re: pkgconf fails

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

On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 07:14:44PM +0100, Marc Baudoin wrote:
> Marc Baudoin <babafou%babafou.eu.org@localhost> écrit :
> > Hi,
> 
> Sorry, message sent too fast...
> 
> I was just trying to say that, since pkgconf has been updated to
> version 1.9.4 yesterday, it regularly crashes (when used in
> comfigure when compiling other software):
> 
> checking for installed fontconfig headers and library... [2]   Segmentation fault      ${PKG_CONFIG} fontconfig
> 
> I have this problem on two of my machines so it probably is a
> general issue.
> 
> I reverted to version 1.8.0 and it (still) works fine.
> 
> So there must be a proble with version 1.9.4.
> 
> Am I the only one having this problem?

I haven't seen this. What's the backtrace? Have you filed an upstream bug report?

I just installed pkgconf and fontconfig in a chroot and tried 'pkgconf
--cflags fontconfig' and 'pkgconf --libs fontconfig' successfully.
 Thomas