Mac OS X and pkg-config

Noel Grandin noelgrandin at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 00:09:09 PDT 2015



On 2015-06-09 07:23 AM, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>
>     May goal is to make building LibreOffice easier for “atypical” people
>     who have things like homebrew or macports
>
>
> Why? What is the point? Such "atypical" people presumably should have no difficulty in making sure their homebrew or
> macports things don't affect their LibreOffice build. We don't need to expand the configuration space into several new
> dimensions. We don't need a new set of bugs that can be seen only with a homebrew or macports version X.Y of external
> library Z.
>

Some of us work on other opensource projects on our Mac machines which happen to need MacPorts or HomeBrew.

Having LibreOffice simply say "I refuse to build on this machine because you've already installed some other stuff" is 
not very friendly.



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