From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Guix packaging, dealing with pkg-config Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:31:49 +0200 Message-ID: <87d0hzbltm.fsf@elephly.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41321) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hqHNF-00070t-Hx for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2019 09:32:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hqHNE-0002w1-6L for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2019 09:32:05 -0400 Received: from sender4-of-o53.zoho.com ([136.143.188.53]:21334) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hqHNC-0002sv-GV for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2019 09:32:04 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Ekaitz at ElenQ Technology Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" Ekaitz at ElenQ Technology writes: > The problem I see is the project is doing a heavy use of the Makefile > with pkg-config and it's searching for lua5.1. This should not be problematic. > I am unable to install Lua and find it with pkg-config and I'm pretty > sure the compilation that Guix does is not finding it. Oh? I just checked and our lua5.1 package does provide a /lib/pkgconfig/lua-5.1.pc file, so finding it with pkg-config should work. > The only idea I can think of is to make a patch on the makefile and > remove pkg-config related stuff, but I'm pretty sure there's a more > elegant solution. I=E2=80=99m pretty sure that this can be avoided. -- Ricardo