[MacPorts] #72151: neomutt @20240329 -doc: Error: No usable pkg-config

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#72151: neomutt @20240329 -doc: Error: No usable pkg-config
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  Reporter:  kprussing  |      Owner:  l2dy
      Type:  defect     |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal     |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports      |    Version:  2.10.5
Resolution:             |   Keywords:
      Port:  neomutt    |
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Comment (by kprussing):

 I decided to go to the source and see if it might be some oddity in
 neomutt directly. I cloned the upstream repo and tried to configure off
 the latest main branch, but I appear to be getting the same error.  I
 tried
 {{{
 % PKG_CONFIG=`which pkg-config` ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-
 doc --with-ncurses=/opt/local --with-nls=/opt/local --lz4 --with-
 ssl=/opt/local --with-zlib=/opt/local --zstd --gpgme --with-
 idn2=/opt/local
 <snip>
 Checking for pkg-config.../opt/local/bin/pkg-config (not found)
 Error: No usable pkg-config
 }}}
 Which is the same error when building the port.

 I took a look in the autosetup directory and found autosetup/pkg-
 config.tcl which has a check in `pkg-config-init` that appears to run
 `pkg-config --version`.  When I run that in the terminal I get 0.29.2 with
 no problem. However, I modified the pkg-config.tcl to print the contents
 of the `$version`:
 {{{
 diff --git a/autosetup/pkg-config.tcl b/autosetup/pkg-config.tcl
 index 9ce7111f5..2d6e433ff 100644
 --- a/autosetup/pkg-config.tcl
 +++ b/autosetup/pkg-config.tcl
 @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ proc pkg-config-init {{required 1}} {

         if {[catch {exec [get-define PKG_CONFIG] --version} version]} {
                 msg-result "[get-define PKG_CONFIG] (not found)"
 +        msg-result "version: $version"
                 if {$required} {
                         user-error "No usable pkg-config"
                 }
 }}}
 Rerunning `./configure` I now see the output contains {{{version: couldn't
 create error file for command: permission denied}}}.  I am not familiar
 with tcl so this could well be another red herring.

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