Transmission 2.22 build fails on Solaris 11 Express

[oh_noes]

Clean Solaris 11 install.

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$ wget curl-7.21.6.tar.gz
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/curl
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ wget libevent-2.0.11-stable.tar.gz
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/libevent
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ wget transmission-2.22.tar
$  CFLAGS="-L/usr/local/libevent/lib -R/usr/local/libevent/lib" \
CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/libevent/include -I/usr/local/curl/include" \
LIBEVENT_LIBS="-L/usr/local/libevent/lib -R/usr/local/libevent/lib -levent -lrt" \
LIBEVENT_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/libevent/include" \
LIBCURL_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/curl/include" \
LIBCURL_LIBS="-L/usr/local/curl/lib -lcurl -lidn -lssl -lcrypto -lldap -lsocket -lnsl -lz" \
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/transmission --enable-daemon --enable-cli --disable-nls --disable-mac --disable-gtk 

But this fails with:

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$ ./configure -q
configure: error: in `/home/username/transmission-2.22':
configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old.  Make sure it
is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full
path to pkg-config.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBCURL_CFLAGS
and LIBCURL_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

To get pkg-config, see <http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig>.
See `config.log' for more details

Am I doing something wrong?

I'm expecting pkg-config to fail (Solaris 11 doesnt have it). I shouldn't need (or want) to install it. How come, even though I'm declaring the required environment variables it's still trying to check it?

This used to work in Solaris 10. Not working in Solaris 11. Is it doing something to incorrectly detect the environment variable declaration?

Libraries below;

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$ find /usr/local/curl | grep -v man
/usr/local/curl
/usr/local/curl/share
/usr/local/curl/lib
/usr/local/curl/lib/libcurl.so.4
/usr/local/curl/lib/libcurl.a
/usr/local/curl/lib/pkgconfig
/usr/local/curl/lib/pkgconfig/libcurl.pc
/usr/local/curl/lib/libcurl.so.4.2.0
/usr/local/curl/lib/libcurl.so
/usr/local/curl/lib/libcurl.la
/usr/local/curl/include
/usr/local/curl/include/curl
/usr/local/curl/include/curl/curl.h
/usr/local/curl/include/curl/mprintf.h
/usr/local/curl/include/curl/curlrules.h
/usr/local/curl/include/curl/types.h
/usr/local/curl/include/curl/curlver.h
/usr/local/curl/include/curl/easy.h
/usr/local/curl/include/curl/stdcheaders.h
/usr/local/curl/include/curl/multi.h
/usr/local/curl/include/curl/typecheck-gcc.h
/usr/local/curl/include/curl/curlbuild.h
/usr/local/curl/bin
/usr/local/curl/bin/curl
/usr/local/curl/bin/curl-config
$ find /usr/local/libevent | grep -v man
/usr/local/libevent
/usr/local/libevent/include
/usr/local/libevent/include/event.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/evrpc.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/event.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/http_compat.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/bufferevent_struct.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/event-config.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/thread.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/dns_struct.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/tag.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/rpc_compat.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/util.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/dns.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/event_struct.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/http_struct.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/bufferevent_ssl.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/rpc.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/listener.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/buffer.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/bufferevent_compat.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/keyvalq_struct.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/bufferevent.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/tag_compat.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/rpc_struct.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/dns_compat.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/http.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/event_compat.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/event2/buffer_compat.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/evutil.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/evhttp.h
/usr/local/libevent/include/evdns.h
/usr/local/libevent/lib
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent.la
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_pthreads.a
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_core.a
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_extra.la
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_core-2.0.so.5.1.0
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_core.so
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_openssl-2.0.so.5
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_pthreads-2.0.so.5
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_core.la
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_extra.so
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_core-2.0.so.5
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent.so
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_openssl.la
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_pthreads.so
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_pthreads-2.0.so.5.1.0
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent-2.0.so.5.1.0
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_extra-2.0.so.5
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent.a
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_openssl.a
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_extra-2.0.so.5.1.0
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_extra.a
/usr/local/libevent/lib/pkgconfig
/usr/local/libevent/lib/pkgconfig/libevent_pthreads.pc
/usr/local/libevent/lib/pkgconfig/libevent.pc
/usr/local/libevent/lib/pkgconfig/libevent_openssl.pc
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent-2.0.so.5
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_openssl-2.0.so.5.1.0
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_openssl.so
/usr/local/libevent/lib/libevent_pthreads.la
/usr/local/libevent/bin
/usr/local/libevent/bin/event_rpcgen.py

[oh_noes]

Found the fixed.

Even though I was declaring the environment vars, it still wanted pkg-config.

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ln -s /bin/true /usr/bin/pkg-config

And it passes the 'check' and uses the env vars as expected.

[Jordan]

That error message is coming from inside one of the pkg-config macros that gets compiled into the configure script... you might want to report this upstream to the pkg-config maintainers. Transmission's use of it for libcurl is pretty straightforward:

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PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBCURL, [libcurl >= $CURL_MINIMUM])

[oh_noes]

Hrmm, how can I report it to the pkg-config maintainers? No pkg-config binaries exists on the system at all. From a user point of view, having that variable declared (LIBCURL_CFLAGS
and LIBCURL_LIBS) should bypass any call to pkg-config?

[Jordan]

right. And the m4 code that does that is handled by the pkg-config macros that were on my machine when I built the tarball, and which I got from installing pkg-config on my system.