How to remove erroneous deps from pkgng

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 20 22:28:33 UTC 2012


On 07/20/2012 14:26, Kimmo Paasiala wrote:
> Sqlite3 isn't the only one with a bogus dependency to pkg-config, for
> example audio/libsndfile does the same by using "USE_GNOME=gnomehack
> pkgconfig" instead of doing the proper thing (tm) which is patching
> Makefile.in to install the .pc file to $(prefix)/libdata/pkgconfig. I
> can try to track down some of those and submit PRs.

http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/pkg-config-run-deps.txt

Looks like bsd.gnome.mk is (bogusly) adding most of these:

pkgconfig_RUN_DEPENDS=          pkg-config:${PORTSDIR}/devel/pkg-config

Removing that is almost certainly the right first step.

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