I have run into a dilemma in regards to the use of pkgconf in ports. Here is what has bitten me: To allow sftp to get files, multimedia/vlc uses libssh2. libssh2, in turn, uses openssl or the GNU crypto library. If i have installed securith/openssl, all is well, but I don't want of need the security/openssl port. If I have not installed openssl from ports, vlc fails! Here is why:
libssh2 creates a .pc file to allow other packages to know whether it uses openssl or libgcrypt. this is a nice thing, but it makes the common assumption that openssl is only there if the package has been installed. I believe that is is the case for Linux. Not so for FreeBSD. vlc uses pkgconf to check on whether all required libraries are installed for libssh2. I finds that libssh2 requires libssl: Requires.private: libssl,libcrypto It then checks to see if these are installed. Since libssl is not installed, it bails on the error. (I believe that it shoudl be "Required: rather than Requires.private:, but that has no impact on the problem. Since FreeBSD ports have already checked the dependencies before building a port, I think such checks should be removed from ports, but I'm not familiar enough with the real-world implications of this to know if it is the right way to go. If it is, I'll can submit a patch for vlc. I suspect, after reading the developers comments, that libssh2 developers will not want to remove their recent changes in this area. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"