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

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 13:31 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> In message <1262417367.16768.15.camel at shumai.marcuscom.com>, you wrote:
> 
> >> >pkg-config dbus-1 --modversion --debug
> >>
> >>
> >> That command produced _no_ stdout output.  Only the following two
> >> messages to stderr:
> >>
> >> gnome-config: not found
> >> gnome-config: not found
> >>
> >>
> >> Did you need a ktrace for that command also?
> >
> >No, you should see a lot of output.  Your pkg-config may be bad.  Try
> >rebuilding and reinstalling devel/pkg-config.
> 
> 
> OK, I just did that:
> 
> 	cd /usr/ports/devel/pkg-config
> 	make
> 	make deinstall
> 	make reinstall
> 
> Then I ran this command again:
> 
> 	pkg-config dbus-1 --modversion --debug
> 
> once again, there was _no_ stdout output, and just the two messages:
> 
> gnome-config: not found
> gnome-config: not found
> 
> written to stderr.
> 
> What now?

It really seems like your system has some serious issues.  Even if one
specifies a non-existent package to pkg-config, the --debug flag should
cause it to print a lot of info to stderr.  You could try defining
PKG_CONFIG_DEBUG_SPEW in the environment, then run pkg-config:

env PKG_CONFIG_DEBUG_SPEW=1 pkg-config dbus-1 --modversion

Joe

> 
> (I suppose that I could run gdb on it, but I have no idea what the thing
> is _supposed_ to do, so the probability of me being able to tell what
> it is _not_ doing properly seems thin.  But I'm willing to give it a go
> if you suggest what I should be looking for and/or where to set a break-
> point.)
> 

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