Re: [E-devel] efl broken on Gentoo

[Matthew R. <win...@gm...>]

 On 08/18/10 21:08, Vincent Torri wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Matthew Robbetts wrote:
>
>>>>
>>>> Hope this is the right one:
>>>> http://pastebin.com/BwaR9jH4
>>>
>>> add
>>>
>>> PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
>>>
>>> line 292 of the configure.ac file, that is, just before :
>>>
>>> if test "x$e_cv_want_device_udev" = "xyes";then
>>>
>>> Vincent
>>
>> That sounds awfully simple :)
>> I'll try it when I can work out how to make Gentoo not overwrite the
>> modified file with the repo version every time I try to emerge!
>>
>> Anyhow, in case this does actually fix my problem - is this something
>> that should be committed to svn, or an indication that something's not
>> right with my system?
>
> First, try that. According to config.log, the second use of pkg-config
> is when defining E_REMOTE (a few lines after, it's where the error
> is), but just before, PKG_CHECK_EXISTS (the first use of pkg-config)
> is used conditionnally. I know that I had some problems when
> PKG_CHECK_EXISTS or PKG_CHECK_MODULES is used conditionnally. And I
> fixed the problem by checking first if pkg-config exists with
> PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG.
>
> Vincent

Well, I couldn't work out how to trick gentoo into playing nice with it,
but I just went into the source and ran ./autogen and the configure
stage does indeed complete now. Excellent. I'm continuing with the build
to see what happens...

Sounds like one of those annoying fiddly script problems that seem to
crop up sometimes. Does the modification you gave me break it for other
people?