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Date:      Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:52:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: who broke mozilla?
Message-ID:  <200301212252.h0LMq28W027817@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1043189070.61589.39.camel@gyros>

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Joe Marcus Clarke said:
> On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 17:38, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> > Joe Marcus Clarke said:
> > > On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 17:26, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> > >
> > > > pkg_info only shows Xft is installed.  I however have
> > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/fontconfig-config
> > > > /usr/X11R6/include/fontconfig
> > > > /usr/X11R6/include/fontconfig/fontconfig.h
> > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig/fontconfig.pc
> > > 
> > > Ah, there's the problem.  Install x11-fonts/fontconfig, and you should
> > > be okay.
> > > 
> > 
> > Yep. It appears to work now.  I noticed that x11-fonts/fontconfig
> > installs fontconfig.pc into X11R6/libdata while I have it in
> > X11R6/lib.  
> 
> Right, if you install packages like fontconfig yourself (i.e. outside of
> the ports collection), you will get problems like this.  We use libdata,
> and the default install wants to use lib.  However, our pkg-config
> doesn't search lib.  When pkg-config doesn't find a .pc file, it tries
> to detect the package using the old gnome-config script.  When that
> doesn't exist, you get the error you saw.
> 

This is going to screw anyone who has to install XFree86
from XFree86.org's cvs repository.  The XFree86-4 port 
does not work with the ATI Radeon 7500 mobility chip.  The
problem is fixed in the upcoming version of XFree86.

Is it possible to have pkgconfig look in libdata and then
fallback to lib?

-- 
Steve
http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/

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