[mythtv] osx-packager.pl breaks after install of fink

[David Abrahams]

Nigel Pearson <nigel at ind.tansu.com.au> writes:

>>         if test x`which pkg-config 2>/dev/null` != x"" ; then
>>             if `pkg-config --atleast-version 0.6.9 libexif` ; then
>>                 echo "#define NEW_LIB_EXIF 1" >> \
>>                     ./mythgallery/mythgallery/config.h
>>             fi
> ...
>> Before I installed fink, I did not have pkg-config, so it would go to 
>> the else statement and and put the proper line in my config.h.  If I 
>> now manually run the 'pkg-config --atleast-version 0.6.9 libexif, I 
>> get a 1 for the return code, so the NEW_LIB_EXIF doesn't get set.
>
> 	Hmmm. So why is fink's pkg-config lying?
> What does `pkg-config --modversion libexif` reveal?
>
> ...
>> My question is, shouldn't the configure script be rewritten as:
>>
>>         if test x"$newexif" = x"yes" ; then
>>               echo "#define NEW_LIB_EXIF 1" >> \
>>                  ./mythgallery/mythgallery/config.h
>>         else
>>             if test x`which pkg-config 2>/dev/null` != x"" ; then
>>                 if `pkg-config --atleast-version 0.6.9 libexif` ; then
>
> 	Probably not, because:
> 1) the purpose of configure is to autodetect features, and
> 2) the default of newexif is yes
>
> ...
>> This way, I can force the NEW_LIB_EXIF with the --enable-new-exif flag.
>
> 	Would only be needed if we changed the default to no!

For OSX, isn't this simple?  It looks like the exif package downloaded
by osx-packager.pl is just never installed in any way that pkg-config
could possibly know about.  Seems to me that we need a
--force-new-exif flag that osx-packager.pl can pass along to
configure.  No?


-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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