syslog-ng33 fails to build

[Outback Dingo]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:40 PM, CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo at cyberleo.net>wrote:

> On 09/13/2013 01:53 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >  I am trying to build syslog-ng33 (release 3.3.9) using a poudriere
> > server, but build process fails:
> >
> <snip>
> > configure: error: in
> > `/wrkdirs/usr/ports/sysutils/syslog-ng33/work/syslog-ng-3.3.9':
> > configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too
> > old.  Make sure it
> > is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full
> > path to pkg-config.
> >
> > Alternatively, you may set the environment variables EVTLOG_CFLAGS
> > and EVTLOG_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> > See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> >
> > It is strange, because previous build (on August 27) works without
> problems ...
> >
> > Any idea??
>
> Probably because syslog-ng relies upon pkgconfig, but assumes it will be
> installed by one of the dependent ports so doesn't explicitly declare
> the dependency. Poudriere has a habit of only installing the immediate
> dependencies of the package it is currently compiling, so exposes such
> issues when a port is updated, but none of its dependencies are. Bug
> ports/181098 is another I found like this.
>
> Add this to the port's Makefile after the include of bsd.port.options.mk:
>
> USES+= pkgconfig
>
> If that corrects the issue you're seeing, submit a pr.
>

Im actually wondering if its deeper then this as, today i built two ports
that had

USE_GNOME=              pkgconfig


which both failed to build, i was wondering is somethings changed, this
occurs on both stable/9 and alpha/10

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