pkg-config vs X11

[Anders F Björklund]

Alexander Toresson wrote:

> You could always create .pc files for the libraries in question.

Create, where ? You mean as a add-on system patch for the user to
install in /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig ? Or local to xfce4-settings ?

> 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.

Well, that is what I was hoping to avoid (patching configure*),
but if it is exclusively pkg-config that is what I'll do then.

After patching (commenting out) the calls to $PKG_CONFIG, the
port would then feed configure with the values to use instead:

     configure.env-append	PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${x11prefix}/lib/pkgconfig" \
	XI_VERSION="1.0.0" XI_CFLAGS="-I${x11prefix}/include" XI_LIBS="-L$ 
{x11prefix}/lib -lXi" \
   	LIBX11_VERSION="6.2.0" LIBX11_CFLAGS="-I${x11prefix}/include"  
LIBX11_LIBS="-L${x11prefix}/lib -lX11" \
	XRANDR_VERSION="2.0.0" XRANDR_CFLAGS="-I${x11prefix}/include"  
XRANDR_LIBS="-L${x11prefix}/lib -lXrandr"

So basically falling back to -lXi -lX11 -lXrandr seem to be
working just fine, but I might be missing a few details here...

I do have proper .pc files for the other requirements, it is
just X11 that is outside my control (and not being updated).

--anders

PS. For some reason it does have xcursor.pc installed.
     But seems to fail to detect it anyway, typically.