Re: pkg/58614: mail/opendmarc fails to build with pkg-config not found

[" David Holland via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/58614; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/58614: mail/opendmarc fails to build with pkg-config not
 found
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2024 20:20:58 +0000

 On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 09:10:01PM +0000, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
  > From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
  > 
  >  On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 07:50:01PM +0000, oster%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
  >  > checking whether to build static libraries... yes
  >  > checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... no
  >  > configure: error: pkg-config not found
  >  > *** Error code 1
  >  
  >  I don't know the proper solution, but the proper workaround is
  >  
  >  1. build in a sandbox with just the required dependencies installed, or
  >  
  >  2. pkg_delete pkgconf pkg-config # depending on which you have installed)
  >  
  >  then the build will succeed.
 
 I'm confused; the package doesn't say it uses pkg-config, but if it's
 going to try surely the best approach is to add it to USE_TOOLS...
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost