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: configure's dependency on pkg-config Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:59:02 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87pqgybgx8.fsf@escher.home> <87boshgedt.fsf@escher.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321138754 20847 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2011 22:59:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jan =?utf-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 12 23:59:10 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RPMXT-0003YA-Mx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:59:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45227 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPMXT-0007Y2-59 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:59:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35679) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPMXQ-0007Xx-SB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:59:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPMXP-00086p-Od for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:59:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:58119) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPMXP-00086l-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:59:03 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPMXO-00063t-Mn; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:59:02 -0500 X-Spook: constitution Syria Ortega UOP Mole AFSPC COSCO Agfa X-Ran: {c{?%9)cwbBGK"3J"p^=c,K3YxbW+9nLpmM4`}0O'dhvt1rTy5NYg;i`3Ybna;\:3~vo3X X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87boshgedt.fsf@escher.home> (Stephen Berman's message of "Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:33:18 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:146013 Archived-At: Stephen Berman wrote: > seems to be at least a doc bug in INSTALL, which should explicitly say > that pkg-config is required in order for Emacs to use certain libraries It already says enough IMO For some libraries, like Gtk+, fontconfig and ALSA, `configure' uses pkg-config to find where those libraries are installed. > The alternative would be to patch configure (or rather configure.in) > to allow setting the standard configure time variables to override > using pkg-config. This seems better to me in principle (though it > might be judged not to be worth the effort); It's not worth the effort. Just install pkg-config and move on. > are there any platforms Emacs runs on that cannot use pkg-config but > on which Emacs could use libxml2 etc.? Not to my knowledge.