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


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [sr #108144] ./configure could recommend packages to install through local package manager
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:05:31 -0700
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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?



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