[Rpm-maint] nss/nspr location for configure

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Sat Nov 29 07:27:34 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 00:20 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> > rpm's configure script cannot find nss/nspr even though these are
> > installed. As it turns out, configure.ac does not use nss/nspr's
> > pkg-config files
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, upstream nss and nspr do not ship pkgconfig files, 
> they're distro additions and thus depending on them could be fragile.  (I 
> wonder if distro packagers haven't bothered to submit the *.pc they add 
> upstream or if upstream has rejected them.)
> 
> > nor the nspr-config utility nor offers a way to 
> > pinpoint to the location.
> 
> These on the other hand sound like something that should be fixed (and I see 
> you already sent a patch).
This patch is pointless.

As with any other configure script simply pass the correct CPPFLAGS,
CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to configure, such that a configure script will pick
up headers and libraries correctly.

Ralf






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