Mac OS X and pkg-config

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 04:49:25PM +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 06/10/2015 11:41 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >I’m not saying we should use pkg-config on Mac, all I’m asking for is
> >what kind of breakages are expected when pkg-config is found, because I
> >didn’t experience any, to find better way to fix it. That better way
> >might be to set PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to an empty value (and may be
> >PKG_CONFIG_PATH as well), it may be something else, but I need to know
> >what is the actual breakage that I need to fix.
> 
> I guess nobody kept track of all the various problems that got reported over
> time and were tracked down to polluted environments on Mac OS X (let alone
> the ones never even reported in the first place).
> 
> Your goal of trying to make the build experience easier is laudable, but I
> fear that your assumption that there is a simple, robust fix to shield the
> LO build from polluted environments is wrong.
> 
> Using presence of pkg-config as a canary to detect polluted environments was
> probably born out of pragmatism.  I guess that there are further problems
> with polluted environments beyond presence of pkg-config.

OK.

Regards,
Khaled