Reviewers: hanwenn, hahnjo, Message: > > can we include this rather than copy & paste? > > This would require generating aclocal.m4 by aclocal as > part of generating configure. I'm all for doing this, > but I'd avoid doing this level of tooling changes > before 2.21.0
Seconded. Description: aclocal.m4: Update PKG_* macros to pkg-config 0.29.2 This commit removes the old definition of PKG_CHECK_MODULES (from 2004) and simply appends a recent version of pkg-config's file `pkg.m4` at the end of `aclocal.m4`. This immediately improves documentation of pkg-config stuff. Now the list of environment variables shown in `configure --help` ends with PKG_CONFIG path to pkg-config utility PKG_CONFIG_PATH directories to add to pkg-config's search path PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR path overriding pkg-config's built-in search path GUILE_CFLAGS C compiler flags for GUILE, overriding pkg-config GUILE_LIBS linker flags for GUILE, overriding pkg-config BDWGC_CFLAGS C compiler flags for BDWGC, overriding pkg-config BDWGC_LIBS linker flags for BDWGC, overriding pkg-config PANGO_FT2_CFLAGS C compiler flags for PANGO_FT2, overriding pkg-config PANGO_FT2_LIBS linker flags for PANGO_FT2, overriding pkg-config FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS C compiler flags for FONTCONFIG, overriding pkg-config FONTCONFIG_LIBS linker flags for FONTCONFIG, overriding pkg-config FREETYPE2_CFLAGS C compiler flags for FREETYPE2, overriding pkg-config FREETYPE2_LIBS linker flags for FREETYPE2, overriding pkg-config GLIB_CFLAGS C compiler flags for GLIB, overriding pkg-config GLIB_LIBS linker flags for GLIB, overriding pkg-config GOBJECT_CFLAGS C compiler flags for GOBJECT, overriding pkg-config GOBJECT_LIBS linker flags for GOBJECT, overriding pkg-config Please review this at https://codereview.appspot.com/551590044/ Affected files (+277, -54 lines): M aclocal.m4