Re: Guix packaging, dealing with pkg-config

[Ekaitz at ElenQ Technology <ekaitz@elenq.tech>]

Great,

I must be missing something then because I'm sure it's not finding it :(

Might be my library path or something related?

Any clue?


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On Wednesday, July 24, 2019 3:31 PM, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

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> Ekaitz at ElenQ Technologyekaitz@elenq.tech writes:
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> > 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’m pretty sure that this can be avoided.
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> Ricardo