From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pkg-config required on OSX, why? Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 18:39:54 +0200 Message-ID: <53763F5A.2050306@swipnet.se> References: <5375F003.7050201@swipnet.se> <83y4y1eush.fsf@gnu.org> <537614E8.7050401@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400258441 14958 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2014 16:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 16:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 16 18:40:34 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WlLBM-0000B8-GH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 18:40:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36856 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlLBL-0005xp-W7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 12:40:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlLBC-0005rJ-Ca for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 12:40:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlLB4-0006tm-Ty for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 12:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailfe02.swip.net ([212.247.154.33]:48718 helo=swip.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlLAw-0006UU-UA; Fri, 16 May 2014 12:40:03 -0400 X-T2-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50 Original-Received: from hosdjarv.se (account mj138573@tele2.se [46.59.42.57] verified) by mailfe02.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.4) with ESMTPA id 502378210; Fri, 16 May 2014 18:40:00 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 212.247.154.33 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171884 Archived-At: Hello. Glenn Morris skrev 2014-05-16 17:57: > "Jan D." wrote: > >> 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? > > The ones that test for any halfway-modern library. > Eg svg, imagemagick, etc, etc. Basically anywhere you see EMACS_CHECK_MODULES. On the other hand, configure has called pkg-config ever since Gtk+ entered the Emacs source. > > Installing pkg-config is a one-time cost. It took me ~ 2 mins. > You'll "never" have to update it. > Even the MS Windows users seemed to manage, eventually. ;) > So I hope you give it a go... > I have, but things have now moved on. Jan D.