PKG_CONFIG_PATH should be set when building ports that use pkg-config

[n8gray@…]

Most systems have packages installed from many sources (e.g. fink, system, user-installed, etc). In order to isolate the DP build pkg-config needs to be told to look at the DP versions of .pc files by setting

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${prefix}/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

during the build. I had to do this by hand to build the gtk2 port because pkg-config kept finding a copy of glib that was distributed with the Mono framework.

[pguyot (Paul Guyot)]

I would rather simply unset PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable. You normally don't need it. Instead, you need the path to favor DarwinPort's pkg-config binary (which it currently does unless you altered binpath option in ports.conf).

This could be achieved by adding to darwinports.tcl (just after set env(PATH)) catch {unset env(PKG_CONFIG_PATH)}

Thoughts?

[jberry@…]

Paul,

Can we close this bug now that we're unsetting most env variables?

[blb@…]

(In reply to comment #2)

Paul,

Can we close this bug now that we're unsetting most env variables?

I think so; reopen if this is still an issue.