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Re: PKG-Config not enabled.
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: PKG-Config not enabled. |
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Sun, 3 Oct 2021 16:25:41 -0400 |
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On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 07:09:32PM +0200, Pascal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When configuring ncurses, I got:
> ...
> ** Configuration summary for NCURSES 6.2 20210925:
> ...
> pkg-config directory: no
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> The last line seems to indicate that pkg-config is not enabled.
not exactly: it indicates that the configure script was not able to
find the library-directory for pkg-config. ncurses' configure script
looks for this information so that it knows where to install ".pc" files.
(One of the design defects of pkg-config is that it's missing options for
querying the tool for _its_ default configuration, which is aggravated by
packagers putting it into interesting places).
The configure script attempts to find that in CF_WITH_PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR,
but that may fail.
> What can the activation of pkg-config bring?
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