Opened 4 years ago

Closed 4 years ago

#59606 closed defect (fixed)

claws-mail 3.17.4_4 fails to build because configure can't find libetpan

Reported by: m5comp Owned by: pmetzger (Perry E. Metzger)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.6.2
Keywords: Cc: m5comp
Port: claws-mail

Description (last modified by m5comp)

The newest version of claws-mail doesn't build because of this error in configure:

checking whether to use libetpan... yes
checking for libetpan-config... no

I have libetpan installed, so I don't know why configure can't find it. I am running macOS 10.15.1 and have Xcode 11.2 installed.

Change History (8)

comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by m5comp

Cc: m5comp added

comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by m5comp

Description: modified (diff)

comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

In the future, please add the port maintainer(s) to Cc (port info --maintainers claws-mail), if any.

comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Owner: set to pmetzger
Port: 3.17.4_4 removed
Status: newassigned

comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by pmetzger (Perry E. Metzger)

This is almost certainly my fault; I'll figure it out.

comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by pmetzger (Perry E. Metzger)

Okay, the problem is that the latest version of libetpan, even though it only bumped a patch number, switched to pkg-config. A patch is needed for claws-mail to use pkg-config to find out if libetpan is installed; that will require hacking configure.ac to use pkg-config instead of the current mechanism. Unfortunately I'm kind of ill right now and have never done this before so I can't get to it tonight. However, if you need to brute force it, that's the place to do it.

comment:7 Changed 4 years ago by pmetzger (Perry E. Metzger)

Okay, as of now, this should be working; I added a patch from one of the developers to eal with the latest libetpan.

comment:8 Changed 4 years ago by pmetzger (Perry E. Metzger)

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed
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