Bug 222129 - devel/ocaml-opam depends on devel/pkgconf
Summary: devel/ocaml-opam depends on devel/pkgconf
Status: Closed Not Accepted
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Some People
Assignee: Tobias Kortkamp
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Reported: 2017-09-07 20:36 UTC by Dave Hayes
Modified: 2018-12-29 07:27 UTC (History)
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Description Dave Hayes 2017-09-07 20:36:26 UTC 
If I understand everything correctly, it seems that using opam and wanting to link to freebsd libraries installed by pkg needs the pkg-config utility which is in devel/pkgconf. 

Thus this is a suggestion to add devel/pkgconf to the RUN_DEPENDS list. This will help people less skilled than I am unravel the cryptic error messages that follow from -not- installing devel/pkgconf. :)
Comment 1 Nathan 2018-08-21 22:59:14 UTC 
Is this still an issue?
Comment 2 Hannes Mehnert 2018-09-30 09:43:45 UTC 
(devel/ocaml-opam maintainer here) thanks for your report. opam itself does _not_ use pkgconf, but some packages which are in opam-repository use pkgconf -- this is handled by opam-depext (which calls out to the OS package manager to request installations of these dependencies).  there's no need to include pkgconf as RUN_DEPENDS for ocaml-opam.
Comment 3 Tobias Kortkamp freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-12-29 07:27:56 UTC 
Rejected by maintainer per comment #2.