On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 06:05:31PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 09/27/2012 01:32 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > What emacs 24.2 has is an own copy (why?) of the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro > > that is shipped as part of pkg-config, and that is today the de-facto > > standard for library detection and library specific LIBS and CFLAGS > > setting in open source software. > > I don't know why Emacs has its own copy, but the point is that > if it's the defacto standard, why doesn't Autoconf support it > out of the box?
I guess it is mostly a political question whether that macro should stay in pkg-config or go into autoconf. For users it doesn't really make a difference where it is. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed