Bug 469684

Summary:	=mail-client/claws-mail-3.9.1 - configure checks for indicate-0.5.pc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) <polynomial-c>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	net-mail+disabled
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-05-13 11:55:58 UTC

checking for libnotify... no
checking for libcanberra_gtk... no
checking for libindicate... no
checking for CM_NP_HOTKEY... yes


configure.ac uses a rather haphazard way of finding libindicate (and probably other libraries / .pc files as well. It tries indicate-0.5 while I happen to have 0.7, yet the package version is called "12.10.1".

But never mind that, it could call PKG_CHECK_MODULES every time and then work with the variables that are thereby set. However, it often tries PKG_CHECK_EXISTS first, which is kind of a duplicate effort.

When it then doesn't find what it's looking for, it doesn't bail out but merrily continues on its way without compiling in support for libindicate. I think the same is true for libcanberra and perhaps a few other libs.

Comment 1 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-05-13 21:45:13 UTC

Any short-term solution?  Otherwise I have to discuss at length with upstream.

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-03-04 09:24:12 UTC

Is this still the case for 3.13.2?

Comment 3 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-07-21 07:58:55 UTC

This version is long gone from the tree.