Re: pkg/49982: graphics/py-cairo does not compile on Solaris

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/49982; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/49982: graphics/py-cairo does not compile on Solaris
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:05:49 +0000

 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 08:40:01AM +0000, J?rn Clausen wrote:
  >  >   The configure script says "checking for CAIRO... yes" so it's probably
  >  >   doing it with pkg-config.
  >  
  >  Yes. And it does so with the native pkg-config:
  >  
  >  $ where pkg-config
  >  /usr/bin/pkg-config
  >  /usr/ccs/bin/pkg-config
  >  
  >  And cairo and pycairo are both packages installed natively.
  >  
  >  I tried compilation of py-cairo with PKG_CONFIG_PATH set to pkgsrc's 
  >  directory, but the error remained.
  >  
  >  After installing devel/pkg-config, I can compile graphics/py-cairo.
 
 aha...
 
  >  Now I wonder what other packages have accidentally picked up stuff from 
  >  native libraries, when they should have used pkgsrc...
  >  
  >  I think this PR can be closed.
 
 Well... shouldn't we have a mechanism to make sure that pkgsrc
 pkg-config gets installed when it's needed? Not sure how that would
 work offhand.
 
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 David A. Holland
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