Re: pkgconf fails

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

On Sat, Feb 04, 2023 at 12:16:35AM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> 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.

So on -current there is no problem, but on NetBSD 9 there is.

I downgraded the package and filed
https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf/issues/285
 Thomas