Strange behaviour of trace mode in MacPorts 2.4.3 / 10.13

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 29, 2018, at 21:04, Ken Cunningham wrote:

> 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.

It's true I have been doing this awhile, but it doesn't seem like it should be difficult to interpret the failure. I disagree that it is "rarely clear". In my experience, most configure scripts that need pkgconfig look for it and complain if it's not there.