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From: Jan Damborsky <dambi AT tio DOT cz>
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 11:53:05 +0100
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On 03/ 1/17 04:33 AM, Dan McMahill (dan AT mcmahill DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> 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.

Thank you for fixing that, Dan.

I would like to give the fix a try. Could you please let me know
how to obtain the source code containing your fix?

Cheers,
Jan