[GEM-dev] ./configure: line 8733: pkg-config: command not found

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 4, 2007, at 3:14 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> I took this snippet from another project's configure.ac, I think it's
>> a common and sensible way of handling Fink and DarwinPorts.  As you
>> have said before, the Gem build system aims to build Gem using what
>> is installed on that machine.  This would definitely help that
>> process, people wouldn't have to know how to setup their environment
>> in order for the Gem build to use Fink and/or DarwinPorts.
>
> i thought the paths were found fine when running the configure by  
> hand.
> i thought this problem only occurs with autobuild (e.g. cron- 
> triggered)
> systems?
>
> nevertheless, i will investigate...

If a person has set up their PATH in their environment to use Fink/ 
DarwinPorts, then Gem's ./configure will use it, just like any other  
program that inherits env vars from the shell.

But if someone has installed Fink/DarwinPorts, but did not setup  
their shell's PATH, then Gem's configure would not find the things.   
That's what that chunk does, make sure ./configure will find stuff  
there.

I think it's pretty safe, it's just adding paths to the PATH variable.

.hc

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> IOhannes



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