Bug #114788 for GD: libgd-perl: FTBFS: Could not find gdlib-config in the search path.

Here's the patch we're using in Debian currently. Probably not ready for prime-time / not universally applicable, but maybe it helps others. Cheers, gregor

Description: use pkg-config (via ExtUtils::PkgConfig) instead of the removed gdlib-config. Additionally remove parts from try_to_autoconfigure which are not needed, at least on Debian, and adjust some variable to the different output of pkg-config. pkg-config doesn't return "features", so we're hardcoding it for now, taken from gdlib-config as of src:libgd2 2.2.3-1.1 (rebuilt with gdlib-config re-enabled). . This patch might need more massaging before upstreaming it wrt non-Debian systems, and inclusion of ExtUtils::PkgConfig into the distributions metadata. Origin: vendor Bug: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=114788 Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/825629 Forwarded: no Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> Last-Update: 2016-09-25 --- a/Makefile.PL +++ b/Makefile.PL @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ use ExtUtils::MakeMaker qw(prompt WriteMakefile); use Config; use strict; +use ExtUtils::PkgConfig; # if this is a dev version the version number can be a string with underscores # remove them to prevent a warning and that's what perl will do it it was @@ -273,27 +274,23 @@ sub try_to_autoconfigure { my ($options,$lib_gd_path,$INC,$LIBPATH,$LIBS) = @_; - my $config = `gdlib-config --all`; - return unless $config; + my %config = ExtUtils::PkgConfig->find ('gdlib'); + return unless %config; $AUTOCONFIG++; - my ($version) = $config =~ /^GD library\s+(\S+)/m; + my ($version) = $config{modversion}; warn "Configuring for libgd version $version.\n"; - my ($cflags) = $config =~ /^cflags:\s+(.+)/m; - my ($ldflags) = $config =~ /^ldflags:\s+(.+)/m; - my ($libs) = $config =~ /^libs:\s+(.+)/m; - my ($libdir) = $config =~ /^libdir:\s+(.+)/m; - my ($features) = $config =~ /^features:\s+(.+)/m; - my ($includedir) = $config =~ /^includedir:\s+(.+)/m; + my ($cflags) = $config{cflags}; + my ($libs) = $config{libs}; + my ($libdir) = ExtUtils::PkgConfig->variable('gdlib', 'libdir'); + my ($features) = 'GD_GIF GD_GIFANIM GD_OPENPOLYGON GD_ZLIB GD_PNG GD_FREETYPE GD_FONTCONFIG GD_JPEG GD_XPM GD_TIFF GD_WEBP'; @$INC = map {s/^-I// && "-I$_"} split /\s+/,$cflags; - @$LIBPATH = map {s/^-L// && "-L$_"} split /\s+/,$ldflags; @$LIBS = split /\s+/,$libs; - push @$LIBS,"-lgd"; push @$LIBPATH,"-L$libdir"; - ($$lib_gd_path = $libdir) =~ s!/[^/]+$!!; + $$lib_gd_path = $libdir; $$options = $features; my ($minor, $patch) = $version =~ /^2\.(\d+)\.(\d+)$/; @@ -301,8 +298,6 @@ $$options .= " GD_UNCLOSEDPOLY GD_ANIMGIF GD_FTCIRCLE VERSION_33"; } - my @correct_inc = map {s/^-I// && $_} split /\s+/,$cflags; - check_for_stray_headers($includedir,@correct_inc); return 1; }