Re: [Openvpn-devel] Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS --enable-systemd ./configure error

Hi, On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 05:43:52PM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: > > Maybe our configure should point this out more clearly, that is, if > > "--enable-systemd" is given and pkg-config cannot be found, complain > > about lack of *pkg-config*... > > Actually, pkcs11-helper and p11-kit checks also depends on pkg-config > ... the systemd pkg-config calls just happens to be run first to bail > out if it can't figure out the systemd details. It seems pkg-config > first called on pkcs11-helper, then openssl - both which considers > "failure" as non-critical. > > If it is only the openssl.pc missing on some *BSD distros, then I think > we can have pkg-config being a requirement which is checked for as early > as possible. Otherwise, we'll need to check for pkg-config if > pkcs11-helper, p11-kit or systemd is enabled. And for each new > dependency with pkg-config support. On the BSDs (and Solaris) we can't assume pkg-config support. So everything that is not linux specific has to fall back to "just try and see if linking works". > Btw ... I also see we could utilize pkg-config for lz4 too (at least > with lz4-1.7.3) This happens to have a pkg-config entry on FreeBSD, but it's called "liblz4.pc"... go figure :-) (And I did not check the other ones) gert -- USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! //www.muc.de/~gert/ Gert Doering - Munich, Germany ge...@gr... fax: +49-89-35655025 ge...@ne...