[MacPorts] #52068: darkice needs pkgconfig dependency

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Mon Aug 22 07:20:27 PDT 2016


On 2016-08-22 12:39, Niels Dettenbach wrote:
> Hmmm,
> i'm just wondering how the port worked up to 1.2 - there was no significant 
> changes within darkice sources done as far as i know from Rafael Diniz 
> (darkice maintainer) and i see no differences in the configure flag sheme too.

If you had the pkgconfig port installed, it just worked because it was
already available. That is very likely as pkgconfig is a build
dependency for many other ports.

> Do i have to correct here something further? In that case i have to dig in 
> deeper asap (i.e. next weekend) into macports again.
> 
> depends_build-append port:pkgconfig

That would be correct.

> Could i add this in general anywhere or should place this under any of the 
> variant sections? In practice, any mac osx user would at least need jack - and 
> i don't know if further of the encoders need pkg-config too.

According to the configure script, the detection for all of them uses
pkg-config. Makes sense to add it as a general dependency.

Rainer


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