Re: About net/nextcloudclient, libp11 and devel/pkgconf

On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 02:53:45PM -0400, Adriano Barbosa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since version 3.16.0, net/nextcloudclient requires libp11 [1][2],
> which in turn depends on devel/pkgconf. I submitted a port of libp11
> [3] before pkgconf was removed from the ports tree, but the commit
> didn´t go through. Now, devel/pkgconf is no longer available in the
> ports tree.
> Are there any current alternatives to devel/pkgconf in the ports tree?
> What should be the future of net/nextcloudclient in this context?

pkgconf has been imported in base as a replacement for the previous
homegrown and Perl-based pkg-config. So you should be able to use it
directly. If your ports look for the pkgconf executable names, there
are various approaches like a symlink in ${WRKDIR}/bin. Maybe it
could/should be reachable under both names in the base system.

m2 ~$ pkg-config --about
pkgconf-lite 2.4.3
[...]

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jca