Re: gEDA-user: one fix for building under Solaris

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:45 AM, Peter Clifton wrote:
>>    It seems I've screwed myself by installing the latest release
>> (v0.23) of pkg-config, which seems to have suffered from "hey,
>> everyone runs Linux with Gnome on a PC, right?" disease.  I just
>> looked at the source code; it is hard-coded to call gnome-config.
>> Dumb, dumb, dumb.  The pkg-config shipped with Solaris, v0.15.0,
>> performs no such foolishness.  WTF?
>>
>>    I'm going to re-run the configure script using the older pkg-
>> config binary.
>
> I've just skimmed the pkg-config source-code, and the only place it is
> calling gnome-config is as a compatibility fall-back for the way gnome
> libraries used to be discovered. It sucks if it is failing  
> ungracefully
> because gnome-config doesn't exist, however the fact it is trying to
> call it in the first place does rather suggest something it is looking
> for is missing.
>
> The older pkg-config (assuming it works ok), would be a useful
> workaround. The Changelog suggests the gnome-config fallback was added
> back in 2000, so there is a possibility that the pkg-config on your
> system was just patched.
>
> If you need a working, newer pkg-config, open up parse.c, navigate to:
>
> Package *
> get_compat_package (const char *name)
> {
>
> around line 1189 for pkg-config version 0.22,
> and short-circuit it to return NULL.

   An excellent idea...I'm recompiling pkg-config now.  I will report  
progress shortly.

>>> (Peter - who is currently in .deb package hell trying to build some
>>> -devel snapshot .debs).
>
> I'm on my third upload to the PPA, hoping I've got it right this time.
> It hasn't even hit a build daemon yet!

   Double ugh!  Perhaps some caffeine is in order.

          -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL




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