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: pkg-config required on OSX, why? Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:01:23 +0200 Message-ID: <5375F003.7050201@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 1400238114 611 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2014 11:01:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:01:54 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 16 13:01:47 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 1WlFtb-00077q-FX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 13:01:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34784 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlFtb-00054Z-5V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 07:01:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48746) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlFtQ-00052i-Qd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 07:01:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlFtI-0004GN-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 07:01:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailfe06.swip.net ([212.247.154.161]:37687 helo=swip.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlFtI-0004BM-DX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 07:01:28 -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 mailfe06.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.4) with ESMTPA id 499684516 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 13:01:24 +0200 Original-Received: from jdvpro.hq.ismobile.com (unknown [176.57.193.190]) (Authenticated sender: jhd) by hosdjarv.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A7D391A01DE for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:01:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 212.247.154.161 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:171876 Archived-At: Hello. Why is pkg-config a requirement on OSX? Emacs builds fine without it. In fact it is not called anywhere and is not needed. If it is a requirement, can someone please put some notes in admin where to get pkg-config for OSX. I don't think installing Homebrew or MacPorts just to build Emacs is reasonable. Thanks, Jan D.