ports/140563: net/avahi-app doesn't build - depends on missing "gnome-config"

[l***@siu.edu]

pkg-config-0.23_1/parse.c (updated 8 April 2010) contains "gnome-config"
in it 10 times, but your reply to the above post states that
'gnome-config is not required by any modern application'.

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 21:28 -0500, ***@siu.edu wrote:
> pkg-config-0.23_1/parse.c (updated 8 April 2010) contains "gnome-config"
> in it 10 times, but your reply to the above post states that
> 'gnome-config is not required by any modern application'.

That is correct, gnome-config is not required. It may be referenced,
but it is a legacy (i.e. GNOME 1.4) component which most likely will not
be installed on modern systems. If the code which references
gnome-config is executed, that means the required pkg-config (i.e. .pc)
file could not be found. If that pkg-config file is a hard requirement
of a given piece of software, then that likely points to a missing or
corrupt package dependency.

Joe

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