Re: PKG_CHECK_MODULES on system without pkg-config installed?

[Miles Bader]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> I don't even try to fully support systems without pkg-config, I
> basically just want a fallback so I can get some sort of build on them,
> maybe with some features disabled.

I should note that although this is my tactic, it's not actually a very
important point.

For the rest of the reasons mentioned, _even if_ one wants to fully
support systems without pkg-config (so one has to add the manual probing
code), it's still a good idea to just support both methods:  supporting
pkg-config doesn't add much complexity to the configure.ac file (the
bloat is the manual probing code), and for systems that _can_ benefit
from it, it yields superior results.

-Miles

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