What is the name of the pkg-config package?

Jonathan Engwall engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com
Sat Jun 27 10:00:35 PDT 2020 

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> >    1. Re: What is the name of the pkg-config package? (Gerald Henriksen)
> >    2. Re: What is the name of the pkg-config package? (Jeffrey Walton)
> >    3. Re: What is the name of the pkg-config package? (Jonathan Engwall)
> >    4. Re: What is the name of the pkg-config package? (Lassi Kortela)
> >    5. Re: Setup on PC Engines APU2 Boards (Krzysztof Piecuch)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 15:19:24 -0400
> > From: Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks at gmail.com>
> > To: users at dragonflybsd.org
> > Subject: Re: What is the name of the pkg-config package?
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> > On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:27:34 -0400, you wrote:
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> > >I'm having trouble testing GNU's Wget2 on DragonFly.
> >
> > It isn't part of GNU, it is (per the gitlab page) a clone of the gnu
> > wget program.
> >
> >
> > >I don't know what name DragonFly uses for pkg-config. Searching is
> > >turning up irrelevant noise.
> >
> > Using google to search "freebsd pkg-config" gave several sites saying
> > the *bsd package is called pkgconf
> >
> >
> >
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 15:25:50 -0400
> > From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com>
> > To: Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks at gmail.com>
> > Cc: users at dragonflybsd.org
> > Subject: Re: What is the name of the pkg-config package?
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> > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 3:19 PM Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:27:34 -0400, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >I'm having trouble testing GNU's Wget2 on DragonFly.
> > >
> > > It isn't part of GNU, it is (per the gitlab page) a clone of the gnu
> > > wget program.
> > >
> > >
> > > >I don't know what name DragonFly uses for pkg-config. Searching is
> > > >turning up irrelevant noise.
> > >
> > > Using google to search "freebsd pkg-config" gave several sites saying
> > > the *bsd package is called pkgconf
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Maybe the pkg program can provide an alias for 'pkg-config' and
> > 'pkgconfig' to 'pkgconf'. Or maybe pkg can provide a suggestion for
> > the correct package name?
> >
> >
> You are talking about pkg itself giving you trouble. You might have a
> damaged system. Maybe you could try the D Ports collection:
> https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/DPorts
> It sounds odd. It would be easier if you would copy&paste the errors you
> see when you have these problems.
> "man pkg" will tell you everything there is to know about pkg.
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> > Then things just work, and it does not waste anyone's time.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
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> > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:32:42 -0700
> > From: Jonathan Engwall <engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com>
> > To: DragonFlyBSD Users <users at dragonflybsd.org>
> > Subject: Re: What is the name of the pkg-config package?
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> > Pkg-config is an option to pkg. What is the result of your error report?
> > If you copy-paste the error message I will try to help.
> >
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> > >    1. Re: Setup on PC Engines APU2 Boards (Christoph Harder)
> > >    2. What is the name of the pkg-config package? (Jeffrey Walton)
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> > > Message: 1
> > > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 18:02:03 +0200
> > > From: Christoph Harder <shadowomf at arcor.de>
> > > To: Krzysztof Piecuch <piecuch.krzysztof at gmail.com>
> > > Cc: users at dragonflybsd.org
> > > Subject: Re: Setup on PC Engines APU2 Boards
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> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > thank you for testing and for the hint regarding the latest image.
> > > On the apu4d4 the latest image is also booting, but with the same
> problem
> > > as in your video.
> > >
> > > Maybe the serial console settings must be changed befor continuing the
> > > setup? But I didn't find how to do it in the DragonflyBSD installer.
> > >
> > > Can it be done in the setup itself or do I need to change the settings
> in
> > > the usb image (e.g. loader.conf?)?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Christoph
> > >
> > >
> > > Am 26.06.2020 um 16:00 schrieb Krzysztof Piecuch:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I have an apu2d4.
> > > > I can't boot any of 5.8.0 or 5.8.1 release images - I
> > > > get the same "no /loader" error you've described.
> > > >
> > > > The "latest" image sort-of boots, but the serial console doesn't work
> > as
> > > > expected. Please see the video[1] from 0:40s to see what I mean.
> > > >
> > > > Chris
> > > > [1]: https://asciinema.org/a/qSy2zhxIxsSopGG9vrBbbO3Dg?t=40s
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> > > From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com>
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> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > > I'm having trouble testing GNU's Wget2 on DragonFly. Configure is
> > > dying because it looks like pkg-config is not installed. That's no big
> > > deal - I should only need to install pkg-config...
> > >
> > > I cannot find the name of the pkg-config package:
> > >
> > > $ command -v pkg-config
> > > $
> > >
> > > $ sudo find /usr -name pkg-config
> > > $
> > >
> > > But the man pages says it exists (or implies it exists somewhere?):
> > >
> > > $ man -k pkg-config
> > > pkg-config, pkg config(8) - retrieve the value of a given configuration
> > > option
> > >
> > > Try to install it:
> > >
> > > $ sudo /usr/local/sbin/pkg install pkg-config
> > > Updating Avalon repository catalogue...
> > > Avalon repository is up to date.
> > > All repositories are up to date.
> > > pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pkg-config' have been
> > > found in the repositories
> > >
> > > $ sudo /usr/local/sbin/pkg install pkgconfig
> > > Updating Avalon repository catalogue...
> > > Avalon repository is up to date.
> > > All repositories are up to date.
> > > pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pkgconfig' have been
> > > found in the repositories
> > >
> > > I don't know what name DragonFly uses for pkg-config. Searching is
> > > turning up irrelevant noise.
> > >
> > > What is the name of the pkg-config package?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
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> > Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:05:12 +0300
> > From: Lassi Kortela <lassi at lassi.io>
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> > >>> I don't know what name DragonFly uses for pkg-config.
> > >>
> > >> Using google to search "freebsd pkg-config" gave several sites saying
> > >> the *bsd package is called pkgconf
> > >
> > > Maybe the pkg program can provide an alias for 'pkg-config' and
> > > 'pkgconfig' to 'pkgconf'. Or maybe pkg can provide a suggestion for
> > > the correct package name?
> >
> > The pkg-config situation off the top of my head, possibly with mistakes:
> >
> > - The original pkg-config was written in Perl and originated in GNOME.
> > - pkgconf is a compatible rewrite in C, originated in one of the BSDs.
> > - pkgconf also provides the "pkg-config" command as an alias.
> > - pkgconf is installable from *BSD ports, and is in the OpenBSD base
> > system.
> > - 'pkg config' in DragonFly is a completely different command whose name
> > is similar by coincidence.
> > - 'man pkg-config' usually brings up the manual page for the pkg-config
> > command, but in DragonFly the manpage for 'pkg config' subcommand is
> > named 'pkg-config(8)' so that manpage is called up instead.
> >
> > A pkg-config implementation is sufficiently simple and generally useful
> > that having it in the base system might be a good idea.
> >
> > As a separate but related suggestion, it could also make sense to ship
> > .pc definition files for the base system libraries in /usr/lib. There's
> > already a directory for such files, /usr/libdata/pkgconfig, but so far
> > it only covers libusb and zlib.
> >
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> > Message: 5
> > Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 12:54:14 +0000
> > From: Krzysztof Piecuch <piecuch.krzysztof at gmail.com>
> > To: Christoph Harder <shadowomf at arcor.de>
> > Cc: Krzysztof Piecuch <piecuch.krzysztof at gmail.com>,
> >         users at dragonflybsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Setup on PC Engines APU2 Boards
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> > Resending this because I had some issues:
> >
> > Dillon suggested appending these options to /boot/loader.conf:
> > sio0.flags=0x10
> > sio0.baud=115200
> > set boot_serial="YES"
> > console=comconsole
> > set comconsole_speed=115200
> >
> > After that, apu2d4 happily boots through serial console, no problems
> > detected. See the screencast [1] for full /boot/loader.conf example and
> > boot experience.
> >
> > Getty is spamming errors but I'm pretty sure you can disable it by
> > turning off other gettys by editing /etc/ttys.
> >
> > Chris
> > [1]: https://asciinema.org/a/TrJSLm3qeodtPCXHSrsIC1i3v
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