Subject: bug#73255: 30.0.91; on NetBSD-10 configure script run halts

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:14:10 +0300

> From: Van Ly <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 06:31:04 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >>   configure: error: The following required libraries were not found:
> >>        gnutls
> >
> > That's the reason, right there: the configure script decided it
> > couldn't find GnuTLS installed whose version is at least 2.12.2:
> >
> >> 167 checking for gnutls >= 2.12.2... no
> >
> > AFAICT, Emacs 29.4 was making the same test, so there's some other
> > factor here at work.  Did something change wrt GnuTLS between the time
> > you built Emacs 29.4 and the time you tried to build 30.0.91?  Are you
> > sure you have the header files needed for developing programs with
> > GnuTLS?
> >
> 
> The pkgsrc manager refreshed the quarterly release so that may explain.

Probably.  But I'd need to see the contents of your gnutls.pc file to
know for sure.

> As attached, the pkg-content listing shows header files.
> 
> > In any case, please post config.log which was created by running the
> > configure script, it should tell the details regarding the failed
> > test.
> >
> 
> See attached config.log for 29.4 and 30.0.91. The earlier version
> config.log locates the cairo package related paths and I was able to
> make that work on 30.0.91

Here's the difference:

 Emacs 29.4:

> configure:15995: checking for gnutls >= 2.12.2
> configure:16002: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "gnutls >= 2.12.2"
> configure:16005: $? = 0
> configure:16019: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "gnutls >= 2.12.2"
> configure:16022: $? = 0
> configure:16060: result: yes
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^
  It succeds.  By contrast, Emacs 30:

> configure:20577: checking for gnutls >= 2.12.2
> configure:20584: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "gnutls >= 2.12.2"
> Package gnutls was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gnutls.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> Package 'gnutls' not found
> configure:20587: $? = 1
> configure:20601: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "gnutls >= 2.12.2"
> Package gnutls was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gnutls.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> Package 'gnutls' not found
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  It fails.

The pkg-content listing shows the gnutls.pc file:

    59 /usr/pkg/lib/pkgconfig/gnutls.pc

But it looks like this file is not in the directory where pkg-config
looks.  So, as the configure script says, "Perhaps you should add the
directory containing `gnutls.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment
variable".  Or maybe the file is there, but its contents is wrong or
corrupted or something.  Or maybe you installed a new version of
pkg-config, and that looks in different places.

In any case, you should make sure that the command

  $ pkg-config --exists --print-errors "gnutls >= 2.12.2"

exits with zero status and no error messages.

Bottom line: this seems to be a problem with your system
configuration.