Re: pkg-config required on OSX, why?

[Jan D.]

Hi.

Eli Zaretskii skrev 2014-05-16 15:07:
> > Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:01:23 +0200
> > From: "Jan D." <address@hidden>
> >
> > Why is pkg-config a requirement on OSX?
>
> Are you sure it is needed for building Emacs, and not just for running
> autogen.sh/aclocal in order to produce the configure script when
> building out of the repository?

It is requred for that also, but pkg-config is run in configure also.

> The latter is indeed new, and is because configure.ac now calls a
> macro that is defined by pkg.m4, which comes with pkg-config.

Yes, I saw those undefined macros (I think it was three) when trying to 
build without pkg-config after tweaking autogen.sh.

I built pkg-config from source, but having pkg-config as a requirement 
form some macros must mean those macros are important.  What are they?

        Jan D.