vlc-2.1.0.4 fails with libssh2 enabled

Kevin Oberman rkoberman at gmail.com
Mon Oct 28 16:52:48 UTC 2013


Since the vlc port was updated last week I have been unable to update. I
have selected libssh2 in the configuration, but when configure is run, it
ways libssh2 is not found.
checking for SFTP... no
configure: error: Library libssh2 needed for sftp was not found
===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
Please report the problem to multimedia at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach
the "/usr/ports/multimedia/vlc/work/vlc-2.1.0/config.log" including the
output
of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to
provide
an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. a
/usr/sbin/pkg_info
-Ea).
*** [do-configure] Error code 1

Looking into the log I find:
configure:31648: checking for SFTP
configure:31655: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libssh2"
configure:31658: $? = 0
configure:31672: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libssh2"
configure:31675: $? = 0
configure:31689: result: no
Package libssl was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libssl.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'libssl', required by 'libssh2', not found
Package 'libcrypto', required by 'libssh2', not found

But pkg-config has no problem with libssh2:
# pkg-config --exists --print-errors libssh2
# echo $?
0
#

configure for this sftp is a bit convoluted for my poor sh skills, but I
can't figure out why it's failing. It makes it through the tests at 31675,
but then files the library test. But I manually execute that test and it
passes.
# pkg-config --libs "libssh2"
-L/usr/local/lib -lssh2  -Wl,-rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
# echo $?
0
#

Anyone with good sh ability want to look into this? In the interim, I have
re-installed vlc without support for sftp.

If I don't se anything on this in te next day, I'll open a PR, but I'm
hoping that this is a trivial tweak that can be quickly be fixed by someone.

Thanks!
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com


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