pkg-config vs X11

[Alexander Toresson]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se> wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm having some trouble with "xfce4-settings" trying
> to find X11 and friends by using pkg-config on Darwin...
>
> My trouble is that for older versions like Mac OS X 10.4,
> there are no .pc files for the required libraries - even
> if the libraries themselves are installed in /usr/X11R6.
> So currently I had to patch the configure file for that.
>
> Is there a way to make it work "out-of-the-box" perhaps ?
> XDT_CHECK_PACKAGE([XI], [xi], [1.0.0])
> XDT_CHECK_PACKAGE([LIBX11], [x11], [1.0.0])
> XDT_CHECK_PACKAGE([XRANDR], [xrandr], [1.1.0])
>
> Newer versions, like Mac OS X 10.5, do have the pkgconfig
> files (in /usr/X11) so there it should work just fine...
>
> --anders
>
> PS. The program seems to work just fine with the libs.
>

You could always create .pc files for the libraries in question.
If you haven't got them, you have to either do that, or patch the
configure scripts -- XDT_CHECK_PACKAGE relies exclusively on
pkg-config for checking whether a library is installed.

// Alexander