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Viktor Szakats 04d90b5deb
configure: add option to trace pkg-config detection details
To aid debugging cases when dependency detection acts unexpectedly.
Sprung from spending days trying to figure out behavior of ngtcp2 crypto
modules and their dependencies.

You can enable by setting env `CURL_TRACE_PKG_CONFIG` to a non-empty
value. When enabled, details are logged for both successful and
unsuccessful detections. Logging of unsuccessful ones is automatically
enabled when `CURL_CI` env is set, which is the case for all CI jobs.

It works by asking for `--debug` output and grepping for lines that seem
useful for this purpose. Output is different for classic pkg-config and
pkgconf, and may depending on tool version. Also append `--print-errors`
output if any.

Examples (with pkgconf):

Fail, before:
```
checking for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl options with pkg-config... no
configure: error: --with-ngtcp2 was specified but could not find ngtcp2_crypto_boringssl pkg-config file.
```

Fail, after:
```
checking for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl options with pkg-config... no
configure: pkg-config --exists libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl trace:
---- begin
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp3/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl
trying path: /home/runner/ngtcp2-boringssl/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp3/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2
trying path: /home/runner/ngtcp2-boringssl/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp3/build/lib/pkgconfig for openssl
trying path: /home/runner/ngtcp2-boringssl/build/lib/pkgconfig for openssl
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp2/build/lib/pkgconfig for openssl
==== error:
Package openssl was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `openssl.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'openssl', required by 'libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl', not found
---- end
configure: error: --with-ngtcp2 was specified but could not find ngtcp2_crypto_boringssl pkg-config file.
```

Success, after:
```
checking for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl options with pkg-config... found
configure: pkg-config --exists libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl trace:
---- begin
trying path: /home/runner/awslc/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp3/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp2/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl
trying path: /home/runner/ngtcp2/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl
trying path: /home/runner/awslc/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp3/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp2/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2
trying path: /home/runner/ngtcp2/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2
trying path: /home/runner/awslc/build/lib/pkgconfig for openssl
trying path: /home/runner/awslc/build/lib/pkgconfig for libssl
trying path: /home/runner/awslc/build/lib/pkgconfig for libcrypto
---- end
```

More examples:
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20926#issuecomment-4064259935

If there is an externally enablable, built-in feature like this in
classic pkg-config or pkgconf, I could not find it.

Also:
- GHA/http3-linux: set `CURL_TRACE_PKG_CONFIG` to log detection details.
  H3 builds are prone to hard-to-debug dependency issues.

Ref: #20920
Follow-up to 3c64ffaff4 #18415 #18188
Follow-up to 99500660af #18028 #18022

Cherry-picked from #20926

Closes #20931
2026-03-16 11:31:01 +01:00
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