Strange behaviour of trace mode in MacPorts 2.4.3 / 10.13

[Ken Cunningham]

The problem is that it is rarely clear that pkg-config is the missing thing. This script did say so. Often it just errors out with missing things that are clearly there.

When you do this for 20 years, I guess you just say “aha - pkg-config again!”.

For most of us, it’s "WTF is going on?”

But I knew I lost this one before I even sent the email. :>

K



> On Apr 29, 2018, at 6:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Apr 29, 2018, at 20:53, Ken Cunningham wrote:
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>> We should probably just make pkg-config a default dependency for _every_ build and save everyone a pile of heartburn.
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> No, obviously not. Declare a dependency on pkg-config when pkg-config is required. Simple.
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