GNU bug report logs - #47159
28.0.50; gnutls not recognized in build process without pkg-config

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 14:58:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 47159 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 47159 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47159: 28.0.50;
 gnutls not recognized in build process without pkg-config
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:26:35 -0400

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> I can reproduce this on Debian/bullseye, too.  I removed pkg-config and
> ran ./configure.  It says:
>
> configure: error: The following required libraries were not found:
>      libtiff gnutls
> Maybe some development libraries/packages are missing?
> To build anyway, give:
>      --with-tiff=ifavailable --with-gnutls=ifavailable
> as options to configure.

And further up it will say:

   checking for pkg-config... no

> I can't see any explicit checks for pkg-config in configure.ac.

PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG(0.9.0)

Perhaps you want to check the result of that and make it fatal,
but only in some cases. Or perhaps users should read configure output.
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