[Users] libetpan now uses pkg-config

Brian Morrison bdm at fenrir.org.uk
Wed Nov 6 15:18:52 CET 2019


On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 11:09:15 +0100
wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello Perry,
> 
> 
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 20:24:00 -0500 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com> wrote:
> 
> > Although the latest update to libetpan (released today) only
> > increments the tertiary version number (1.9.3 -> 1.9.4), the package
> > has switched to pkg-config as its configuration mechanism, which
> > means that if claws is to detect it, it will need to update the
> > configure.ac file.
> > 
> > I'm not really experienced at writing these rules, or I would submit
> > a patch. If anyone has a patch for me to try, I'll happily test it.  
> 
> Patched attached.

I pulled the pkgconfig changes from git, built and installed
libetpan-1.9.4 on my Fedora 31 machine. With the new git changes Claws
was able to build and install and appears to be working happily.

Thanks for the update!

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Brian Morrison

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                                                          Oscar Wilde


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