From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pkg-config required on OSX, why? Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:57:55 -0400 Message-ID: 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=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400255899 791 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2014 15:58:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 15:58:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Jan D." Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 16 17:58:12 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 1WlKWM-0000Xb-9h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 17:58:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36524 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlKWL-0001wT-T9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:58:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35785) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlKWI-0001rx-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlKWD-0007gn-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44584) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlKWD-0007gj-6a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlKWC-0003uJ-61; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:57:56 -0400 X-Spook: ANDVT MILSATCOM domestic disruption ARPA tempest MD2 X-Ran: (yB(u\?w)62-`b7jdm=/J`onH(=RK>E!m1d=+vWrlZ0(A (Jan D.'s message of "Fri, 16 May 2014 15:38:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:171882 Archived-At: "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. 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...