Re: gnutls/gnutls.h: No such file or directory

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Ted Zlatanov writes:
 > On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:59:51 +0800 Leo <address@hidden> wrote: 
 > 
 > L> I have worked around this by commenting out the line: Requires.private:
 > L> zlib in gnutls.pc.
 > 
 > ...so is it a bug in GnuTLS then?  Meaning, is requiring zlib on MacOSX 
 > wrong?

AFAICS, the problem is that assuming that common libraries will be
known to pkgconfig is bogus on MacOSX.  In the case in point, on
MacOSX, libz is a system library in /usr/lib, and there will be no
zlib.pc provided, so pkgconfig will get confused.  OTOH, if you have
the MacPorts version of libz installed, there will be a proper zlib.pc
installed in /opt/local/lib/pkgconfig, and it will all just work.

Presumably this also works if you have a private build in /usr/local
too.