Glib brew not properly detecting pkg-config about legacy-homebrew HOT 17 CLOSED

Could you provide the output from:

brew list pkg-config

And

pkg-config --debug

Thanks.

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http://gist.github.com/185724 <- pkg-config is in the path, and matching the brew installed version.

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And /opt/local/bin is in the PATH?

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The above gist already answers that.

$ which pkg-config
/opt/local/bin/pkg-config

But here is exactly what it has:

$ echo $PATH
/opt/local/bin:/Users/kieran/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin

Update: Some additional info

$ echo $CPPFLAGS
-I/opt/local/include
$ echo $LDFLAGS
-L/opt/local/lib
$ ls -la /opt/local/bin/pkg-config 
lrwxr-xr-x  1 kieran  admin  40  7 Sep 19:35 /opt/local/bin/pkg-config -> ../Cellar/pkg-config/0.23/bin/pkg-config

Even with doing this:

$ export PATH=/opt/local/Cellar/pkg-config/0.23/bin:$PATH

The build fails to find pkg-config.

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Indeed, apologies, I'm pretty rushed with all this at the moment. I can't explain this at the moment. I need a test machine with Homebrew installed in a non standard location.

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Alright. Given that my original use of homebrew in /usr/local needed chmod changes which resulted in a corrupted system, after reinstalling the OS, I went with /opt/local. IMHO, it's better suited as the default path (outside of everything else completely). Also means things like MySQL and Git packages I've installed into /usr/local aren't mixed. Makes things much more manageable.

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How was your system corrupted?

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I chmod'd too much I guess. sudo and su wouldn't work, I had to delete several script just to get bash to let me in. Ended up having to reinstall the whole OS. My mistake though, not a homebrew bug. But it's the reason why I went with /opt/local over what the install guide suggests.

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Anything I can add to the README instructions to help other people not do the same thing? As I don't want to offer instructions that aren't clear enough and thus break people's systems, heh! :)

I don't want to change the recommendation as there are a number of advantages to defaulting there. But I would like to add warnings as necessary.

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I still can't fathom why the glib can't find pkg-config though.

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I think it stems from the fact that /usr/local was a root owned folder on a branch new install. Which meant that the whole 'no sudo' approach wouldn't work. I tried doing some chmoding, something stuffed up (human error) and before I knew it, everything in the console wouldn't work. sudo and su were crapped, which meant I couldn't chmod/chown the affected files.

You might suggest /opt/local for those who aren't comfortable tampering with system folders ^_^ It also seems a lot more seperated but functional for me, especially as some .pkg files install to /usr/local and clog the folders (git and mysql namely). I'm enjoying it in /opt/local , and not too many bugs, aside from the one in this ticket.

Which brings me back to the original bug report. I'm trying the latest homebrew, with the dependency resolution, to see if that helps. Will post to let you know how it goes.

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No luck. I did get it working by symlinking /usr/bin/pkg-config -> /opt/local/bin/pkg-config . According to homebrew, /opt/local/bin isn't in my path when compiling, but it is outside of it. Maybe this helps?

==> Warning! /opt/local/bin is not in your PATH
You can amend this by altering your ~/.bashrc file
==> Summary
/opt/local/Cellar/glib/2.20.5: 251 files, 6.1M, built in 2.1 minutes
kieran:~ 
% echo $PATH
/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin

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Hmm… are you using bash?

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I've tried with both bash and zsh. Same issue.

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Ok, traced it back to fix_PATH removing /opt/local/bin from the path during install. The fix (along with several other bug fixes and new features), can be found at http://github.com/KieranP/homebrew/commits/master

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Well that was pretty stupid of me. Sorry about that.

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With the changes to fix_PATH (removal of it rather), this works now. pkg-config is found. Closing issue.

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