How to use base OpenSSL with meson-based ports?

[Koichiro Iwao]

In my ports, I patch configure.ac to find OpenSSL not relying on
pkg-config.

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/net/xrdp/files/patch-configure.ac?revision=469777&view=markup#l8

See also this. 

http://empt1e.blogspot.com/2011/05/dealing-with-pkg-config-detection-of.html
https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/pull/514

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:24:58AM +0400, Gleb Popov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Meson build system uses pkg-config to locate dependencies. However, OpenSSL
> in base does not provide a .pc file (unlike, say, zlib - see
> /usr/libdata/pkgconfig/). I haven't found a way in meson to manually set up
> a dependency in this case.
> 
> I got a suggestion to write my own .pc file and hook it into the build of
> my port, but this looks somewhat hackish for me. Why can't we provide a
> proper .pc file in the base system?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
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