libtasn1-config no longer installed by the libtasn1 1.6_0

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Nov 11 14:49:36 PST 2008


On Nov 11, 2008, at 16:03, Scott C. Kennedy wrote:

> Just noticed that libtasn1 was updated, so I tried to upgrade  
> libtasn1, and it's dependents, but....

[snip]

> --->  Configuring gnome-keyring

[snip]

> checking for libtasn1-config... no
> checking for libtasn1 - version >= 0.3.4... no
> *** The libtasn1-config script installed by LIBTASN1 could not be  
> found
> *** If LIBTASN1 was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
> *** your path, or set the LIBTASN1_CONFIG environment variable to the
> *** full path to libtasn1-config.
> configure: error:
> ***
> *** LibtASN1 0.3.4 was not found.
>
>
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> Biko-2:~ sck$
>  So, I checked the build directory for libtasn1 and it's ChangeLog  
> says...
> 2008-11-04  Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>
>
>         * configure.in: Remove libtasn1-config.  Use warnings.
> So, since the new version doesn't have the libtasn1-config file  
> that all the dependents look for, then they all need to be updated,  
> yes?

I would say yes. Presumably libtasn1 wants its users to use pkgconfig  
to find its libraries now. Software that uses libtasn should be  
updated. Bugs should be reported to the developers of those programs....



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