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On 2/18/2017 2:18 AM, Jan Damborsky wrote:
> On 02/17/17 11:58 PM, Peter Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 17 Feb 2017 22:08, "Chad Parker (parker DOT charles AT gmail DOT com
>> <mailto:parker DOT charles AT gmail DOT com>) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com
>> <mailto:geda-user AT delorie DOT com>]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com
>> <mailto:geda-user AT delorie DOT com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Jan-
>>     Thanks again. Now we know that it's not just hiding somewhere we
>>     didn't expect.
>>
>>     Peter / anyone else who understands autotools-
>>     Is there a way that we can set up configure such that is looks for
>>     the pkg-config first, but falls back to the gdlib-config style
>>     configuration if pkg-config fails?
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     --Chad
>>
>>
>> It should be possible; it is basically just bash scripting at this point.
>>
>> Can do the pkgconfig test first, if that falls - run pretty match the
>> the old code which Dan removed when switching to pkg-config.
>>
>> I think this is an acceptable compromise, but I definitely want to
>> keep the pkg-config based test first.
>>
>> Peter
>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> thank you for looking into this.
> While implementing this fallback mechanism would definitely solve that
> problem,
> I do not think it is worth the effort given the fact that user base of
> running
> Solaris as a desktop OS is pretty minimal (and further shrinking).
> As long as there is a reasonable way to build pcb on Solaris (and apparently
> there is one), I am fine with the current state of things.
>
> Thanks again,
> Jan

Sorry, I missed this in the very long thread with different topics....

I pushed out a fallback which is essentially the old method.  Another 
user had contacted me privately about it and we worked to get it fixed 
and left some notes about why.  Ubuntu precise I think was the OS 
causing him grief.

-Dan