Bug 24720 – fluxbox 0.1.14-r1 ebuild and pkg-config

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Theofilos Intzoglou 2003-07-18 03:03:34 UTC]

fluxbox ebuild fails to compile on a newly installed system with an error that
it cannot find pkg-config. Maybe it should be a dependency for this ebuild
except if it is only needed in the ebuild.

[Comment 1 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2003-07-18 05:23:49 UTC]

It already depends on pkgconfig. Could you please say what "emerge -ep fluxbox" tells on your system? The "emerge info" output would also be nice.

[Comment 2 Theofilos Intzoglou 2003-07-22 09:50:27 UTC]

Sorry for answearing so late but I had some problems with my network connection... The error about pkgconfig showed up on a system of a friend's that I helped him install gentoo. On my system 'emerge -ep fluxbox' does show pkgconfig as a dependency however when I run emerge fluxbox on that newly installed system it gave me 'pkgconfig command not found' error. I checked in the ebuild and I didn't see any DEPEND in it so that's why I wrote this bug report.

[Comment 3 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2003-07-22 23:37:19 UTC]

0.1.14-r1 inherits the commonbox eclass which should really get pkg-config.
At least since  2003/02/09 13:54:33 :-)

Could you provide the requested information from your friend's system?

[Comment 4 Theofilos Intzoglou 2003-07-28 06:29:57 UTC]

Created attachment 15128 [details]
emerge info

[Comment 5 Theofilos Intzoglou 2003-07-28 06:30:27 UTC]

Created attachment 15129 [details]
emerge -ep fluxbox

[Comment 6 Theofilos Intzoglou 2003-07-28 06:32:53 UTC]

  I really cannot understand why we got that error message :-/ Maybe an old version of portage or something? If noone else has had that error you may close the bug report.

[Comment 7 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2003-07-28 06:42:12 UTC]

Perhaps we are not expected to understand this...