Pkg-config no longer builds Mozilla

[Dave Yeo]

After updating pkg-config to 029.1-2oc00, building SeaMonkey fails while running the Firefox configure script here,

configure:19422: checking for pkg-config
configure: error: Library requirements (pango >= 1.22.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

Downgrading pkg-config to 25-4(oc00) allows the build to proceed.

[Silvan Scherrer]

isn't there some more info in the config.log?

[Silvan Scherrer]

ok I figured this out. It's not a pkg-config issue, but a glib issue.
If you do "SET CODEPAGE=CP850" it works again.
The reason is, that glib brings back some charset like en_US and of course iconv() can't convert en_US to UTF-8

[Silvan Scherrer]

or to be even more accurate, our glib rpm doesn't provide the charset.alias table.
With this it would work w/o the need of the above set statement

[Silvan Scherrer]

copy this tile to /@unixroot/usr/lib then it should work

[Dave Yeo]

Adding charset.alias and setting CODEPAGE=CP850 does not fix the issue, from config.log

configure:19422: checking for pkg-config
configure: error: Library requirements (pango >= 1.22.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

the failing test (about line# 19471 of mozilla/configure) seems to be

if $PKG_CONFIG --exists "pango >= $PANGO_VERSION" ; then
    echo "$ac_t""yes" 1>&6
    succeeded=yes

BTW, exactly same error when building Firefox as expected.

[Silvan Scherrer]

That's rather strange. Here all works with the alias file.

[Dave Yeo]

It was a download error, shift-clicking downloaded the page source. I had to click charset.alias to display it with line numbers then click download in other formats--> original.
Now it is working. I guess this can be closed once the charset.alias file is packaged somehow, perhaps a new glib2 build, and added to the repository.

[Silvan Scherrer]

We either change the way glib works, or deliver the charset.alias in the rpm.
I leave the ticket open until this is done.

And I'm glad it works now for you as well.

[Silvan Scherrer]

diff to create the right alias file

[Dave Yeo]

      echo "$l ASCII"
360	361	      echo "$l.ASCII ASCII"
361	362	    done
362	363	    for l in da_DK de_AT de_CH de_DE en_AU en_CA en_GB en_US es_ES \
363	364	             fi_FI fr_BE fr_CA fr_CH fr_FR is_IS it_CH it_IT la_LN \
364	365	             lt_LN nl_BE nl_NL no_NO pt_PT sv_SE; do
 	366	      echo "$l ISO-8859-1"

Should that not be ISO-8859-15? Basically the same as ISO-8859-1 but has the EURO symbol IIRC.
BTW, I notice that the Cc does not result in my receiving messages.

[Silvan Scherrer]

probably you are right, we should use the ISO-8859-15.

Shouldn't cc have the complete e-mail address? Or can't I just not see the complete one?

[Dave Yeo]

The email address is set in my preferences, or rather was set in my preferences. Hopefully fixed.

[Yuri Dario]

The ISO-8859-15 cannot be used, it does not provide a conversion to UTF-8, or at least our code does not provide it.
I have also added _EURO locales to table in

​http://trac.netlabs.org/ports/changeset/1605

This is part of glib2 2.33.12 upcoming release.

[Silvan Scherrer]

glib2 is now in exp repo, so closing this case