Re: [Pan-users] Build fail during configure FreeBSD 9.3

[Dave]

On Saturday 23 April 2016 23:03:54 Rhialto wrote:
> On Sat 23 Apr 2016 at 20:35:26 +0100, Dave wrote:
> > So, the question really is did the
> > person porting the Linux source into a FreeBSD port/pkg test on FreeBSD 9
> > or just on 10?  Zlib us in the FreeBSD 9.x base system so there;s nothing
> > to install but the file zlib.pc doesn't exist and that seems to be
> > something the installer *requires* to confirm that zlib is there.
> 
> Did you try setting these environment variables before running
> configure?
> 
>   ZLIB_CFLAGS C compiler flags for ZLIB, overriding pkg-config
>   ZLIB_LIBS   linker flags for ZLIB, overriding pkg-config
> 
> (from configure --help)

Ni, I didn't.  Do you know what value to set it/them to?
Do I need to set these in advance of running portinstall or make install clean
or do I set them as part of the command line, eg make -Dknob=foo install clean

It's possible you are assuming more knowledge than I actually have :-)

I suspect you are suggesting I do a manual compile/install outside of the
FreeBSD ports/pkg system which is something I've never done before.

I seem to vaguely remember looking for info in the past when installing stuff
on FreeBSD and coming across lots of Linux based help taking about running
./configure before make but that's something the ports system normal does in
FreeBSD so isn't something I'm familiar with.  It's more years than I care to
remember since I last wrote real software with compilers and linkers and stuff.
Primitive IDE's were only just starting to appear with things like Turbo C and
the like to give you an idea of just how long ago I mean :-)

Thanks.