Re: Building with Qt depends on pkg-config, Qt 5 term doesn't work on OS X

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Monday, 24 February, 2014 20:28:05 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Despite this, I still believe that configuration should work properly
> when pkg-config is absent.

I seem to recall that we have had this discussion before.
pkg-config is just a tool that sets various paths and definitions.
If it is not present you can still set those paths and definitions yourself.
The warnings emitted by ./configure about not finding a pkg-config
file are just informational, not fatal errors.

For example, libcerf has no *.pc file so ./configure reports

%%%%
Package requirements (libcerf) were not met:
No package 'libcerf' found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBCERF_CFLAGS
and LIBCERF_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
%%%%

But in fact none of that is needed because libcerf.so is installed in
a standard system location and is found automatically and included
in the gnuplot build despite being unknown to pkg-config.

Now if you are saying that the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro
itself is problematic, then I suppose you can add it as a null operation
in m4/apple.m4


	Ethan