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

[Dave]

On Saturday 23 April 2016 22:50:41 Dave wrote:
> 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.
> 
OOooooohhhhh....An interesting workaround :-)
I just created /usr/libdata/pkgconfig which doesn't exists prior to FreeBSD 10.
Then I copied the zlib.pc file from a 10.3 box to there and Pan built and
installed perfectly.

A blindingly obvious thing to try in hindsight.