Bug 167659
| Summary: | missing zlib.pc file (for devel/pkg-config) | ||
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| Product: | Ports & Packages | Reporter: | Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg> |
| Component: | Individual Port(s) | Assignee: | freebsd-gnome (Nobody) <gnome> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | rfg |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->gnome Over to maintainer (via the GNATS Auto Assign Tool) State Changed From-To: open->closed It's not a pkg-config bug and it's not pkg-config's job to provide *.pc for other libraries. I do not know what gthumb's configure looks like but if it does search for zlib.pc then you will need to hack its configure by remove search for zlib.pc and add link by manual. |
At least one gnome application (gthumb) in one of its recent incarnations (2.14.3) has a configure script that invokes pkg-config(1) in order to check for the presence of something it refers to only as "zlib", and also to get set up to use that (e.g. with suitable -L linker options). Apparently, on Linux systems, there exists a file somewhere called zlib.pc that can be used by pkg-config to get information about "zlib", however on FreeBSD it appears that there is a boat load of .pc files, all of them stored in the directory /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig, but these only cover libraries that were installed as part of some port or package, and sadly, there is no zlib.pc file in there to help pkg-config figure out how to properly link with /usr/lib/libz.{a,so} because apparently, on FreeBSD, that's part of the base system and thus, no zlib.pc file is ever generated or installed for it. Bummer. The result is that the configure step for gthumb 2.14.3 dies with the following errors: gnome-config: not found Package zlib was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `zlib.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'zlib' found Fix: I'm thinking that maybe it would be a Good Thing if the install process for pkg-config were to create a file called /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/zlib.pc ... but what do I know? How-To-Repeat: 1) Fetch source tarball for gthumb-2.14.3. 2) Unzip & untar. 3) cd into the main directory 4) ./configure