From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pkg-config required on OSX, why? Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 16:07:42 +0300 Message-ID: <83y4y1eush.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5375F003.7050201@swipnet.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400245702 16845 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2014 13:08:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:08:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Jan D." Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 16 15:08:16 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 1WlHrw-0003GW-Jq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 15:08:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35503 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlHrw-0000LQ-4J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 09:08:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46097) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlHrY-0008Mt-RW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 09:07:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlHrT-0004JF-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 09:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:59111) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlHrT-0004Iz-Ag for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 09:07:43 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N5O0030045FHB00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 16:04:44 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N5O00MLS4BW7K60@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Fri, 16 May 2014 16:04:44 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <5375F003.7050201@swipnet.se> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 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:171877 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:01:23 +0200 > From: "Jan D." > > 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? 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.