Hi,
On 2022-07-05 15:06:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > Yea. They might not be independent of where you get other dependencies from
> > though. Does macports install headers / libraries into a path that's found by
> > default? Or does one have to pass --with-includes / --with-libs to configure
> > and set PKG_CONFIG_PATH, like with homebrew?
>
> What are you expecting to need PKG_CONFIG_PATH for? Or more precisely,
> why would meson/ninja create any new need for that that doesn't exist
> in the autoconf case?
It's just used in more cases than before, with fallback to non-pkg-config in
most cases. I think all dependencies besides perl can use pkg-config. So all
that changes compared to AC is that you might not need to pass extra
include/lib paths for some dependencies that needed it before, if you set/pass
PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
Greetings,
Andres Freund