Mac OS X and pkg-config

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Wed Jun 10 02:43:40 PDT 2015


On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 12:36:41PM +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> But neither is it very useful to have the already small set of OS X -based
> developers split into those who use a pure upstream way to build, those who
> use HomeBrew libjpeg but bundled Python, those who use MacPorts Python and
> libjpeg, etc.

No, that what I want to achieve, what I want is to make sure LibreOffice
builds the same way regardless of the presence or absence of pkg-config
on Mac OS X, so that is no longer needs to stop the build if one is
found.

Regards,
Khaled


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