Mac OS X and pkg-config

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Noel Grandin <noelgrandin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2015-06-09 11:36 AM, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
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>> How hard can it be to make sure to drop some entries from
>> PATH in the shells where one works on LibreOffice?
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> Oh really? I was not aware of that.
> Perhaps if the error message said something along the lines of
> "we detected pkgconfig in your PATH $HERE$, please remove it and try again"
> it would be vastly more pleasant.

The again if macport and other are installed in /opt something and
_not_ in the path when doing lo build, you are safe.
the issue is having extra stuff in /usr/ or /usr/local because some
'helpful' external module 'config' will try to pick it up from there.

Norbert