How to use base OpenSSL with meson-based ports?

[Gleb Popov]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 8:43 AM Koichiro Iwao <meta at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
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> http://empt1e.blogspot.com/2011/05/dealing-with-pkg-config-detection-of.html
> https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/pull/514
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>
Yes, I know how to deal with autotools. The problem is meson.

Maybe settings CFLAGS/LDFLAGS would help, indeed.

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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