<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">pkg-config* is part of the pkgconfig package (presumably installed, or you would have gotten a message that it, rather than some library, was missing). I gather** it's a tool used to retrieve configuration information about how libraries built with some associated tools were configured...and that the libftdi1 (which apparently you don't have) should have made information available for pkg-config to retrieve.***<br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>It looks like you're doing something on your own...which would not have known to make sure libftdi1 was already installed. Or maybe some environment variable (the PKG_CONFIG_PATH that it mentions, maybe?) wasn't set right. But those are just guesses.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>* discovered as follows:</div><div><div>sh-3.2$ type pkg-config</div><div>pkg-config is /opt/local/bin/pkg-config</div><div>sh-3.2$ port provides /opt/local/bin/pkg-config</div><div>/opt/local/bin/pkg-config is provided by: pkgconfig</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div>** man pkg-config</div><div><br class=""></div><div>*** after installing libftdi1, the following files containing information retrievable by pkg-config can be found:</div><div><div>sh-3.2$ port contents libftdi1 | fgrep .pc</div><div> /opt/local/lib/pkgconfig/libftdi1.pc</div><div> /opt/local/lib/pkgconfig/libftdipp1.pc</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 26, 2020, at 04:14, Christoph Kukulies <<a href="mailto:kuku@kukulies.org" class="">kuku@kukulies.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m stumbling accross some build errors in a package named „blackmagic“:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">$ git clone <a href="https://github.com/blacksphere/blackmagic.git" class="">https://github.com/blacksphere/blackmagic.git</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Cloning into 'blackmagic'...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">remote: Enumerating objects: 5, done.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">remote: Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">remote: Total 9237 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 9232</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Receiving objects: 100% (9237/9237), 3.15 MiB | 1.36 MiB/s, done.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Resolving deltas: 100% (6867/6867), done.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">$ cd blackmagic/</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">$ make PROBE_HOST=hosted</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> GIT include/version.h</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Package libftdi1 was not found in the pkg-config search path.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libftdi1.pc'</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">No package 'libftdi1' found</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Package hidapi-libusb was not found in the pkg-config search path.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Perhaps you should add the directory containing `hidapi-libusb.pc'</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(124, 105, 56); background-color: rgba(255, 170, 161, 0.85);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">No package 'hidapi-libusb' found</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Now I’m wondering: is that pkg-config a part of macports or in other words, can macports help in supplying the issing packages?</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Merry Christmas, Happy Seasons,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Christoph</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>