From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pkg-config required on OSX, why?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 15:38:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537614E8.7050401@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y4y1eush.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi.
Eli Zaretskii skrev 2014-05-16 15:07:
>> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:01:23 +0200
>> From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
>>
>> Why is pkg-config a requirement on OSX?
>
> Are you sure it is needed for building Emacs, and not just for running
> autogen.sh/aclocal in order to produce the configure script when
> building out of the repository?
It is requred for that also, but pkg-config is run in configure also.
>
> The latter is indeed new, and is because configure.ac now calls a
> macro that is defined by pkg.m4, which comes with pkg-config.
>
Yes, I saw those undefined macros (I think it was three) when trying to
build without pkg-config after tweaking autogen.sh.
I built pkg-config from source, but having pkg-config as a requirement
form some macros must mean those macros are important. What are they?
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-16 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-16 11:01 pkg-config required on OSX, why? Jan D.
2014-05-16 13:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-16 13:38 ` Jan D. [this message]
2014-05-16 14:24 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-16 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-16 15:52 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-16 16:48 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-16 16:50 ` Jan D.
2014-05-16 19:04 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-17 6:41 ` Jan Djärv
2014-05-16 15:57 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-16 16:39 ` Jan D.
2014-05-16 16:46 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-16 17:45 ` Jan D.
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