Re: pip and missing shared system system library

On Aug 9, 2020, at 12:59, David Mathog <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> How are you even supposed to find out?
> 
> pkg-config, in any Posix environment.  Within a pure Windows
> environment or on some obscure OS, I have no idea.  Just skip this
> test if it is not supported in a given environment?   Better that it
> works in some environments than in none.

Just to be clear, pkg-config is not part of any Posix standard, AFAIK, so you cannot depend on it being available. For example, Apple does not include pkg-config in macOS releases (although third-party package distributors like Homebrew and MacPorts do optionally provide it for their packages).  And use of pkg-config doesn't solve finding dependencies at run time, which may be a different environment than that at build time.

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