Peter Eisentraut wrote: > I'm not sure this is necessary. No package is strictly speaking > self-contained. If, say, my package depends on GTK, then I rely on GTK > being installed somewhere before I start building. And therefore it could > also be reasonable to assume that the gtk.m4 file with the GTK macros can > be found before I start running autoconf.
The especially fun thing is that you cannot rely on the GTK *re*packagers to do the right thing. *Maybe* they would be more careful with "gtk.m4" than they were with "guile-config", but not necessarily. I now have to try to find the guile config without guile-config. Yummy.
