On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 04:49:25PM +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > On 06/10/2015 11:41 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >I’m not saying we should use pkg-config on Mac, all I’m asking for is > >what kind of breakages are expected when pkg-config is found, because I > >didn’t experience any, to find better way to fix it. That better way > >might be to set PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to an empty value (and may be > >PKG_CONFIG_PATH as well), it may be something else, but I need to know > >what is the actual breakage that I need to fix. > > I guess nobody kept track of all the various problems that got reported over > time and were tracked down to polluted environments on Mac OS X (let alone > the ones never even reported in the first place). > > Your goal of trying to make the build experience easier is laudable, but I > fear that your assumption that there is a simple, robust fix to shield the > LO build from polluted environments is wrong. > > Using presence of pkg-config as a canary to detect polluted environments was > probably born out of pragmatism. I guess that there are further problems > with polluted environments beyond presence of pkg-config.
OK. Regards, Khaled _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
