Re: [sr #108144] ./configure could recommend packages to install through local package manager

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:47:05PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 09/27/2012 12:18 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > your request sounds
> > something more like what pkg-config would be able to do than autoconf proper
> 
> I like the idea of autoconf-generated scripts using
> pkg-config to find out what compiler and linker options
> to use.  That's not what the requester asked for, but
> it would be a step in that direction.  Emacs
> 'configure' does that, and the technique could be
> autoconfized, if someone could find the time.

I somehow miss what you have in mind.

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.

Anything I miss here?

cu
Adrian

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