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Re: configure's dependency on pkg-config
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Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
Re: configure's dependency on pkg-config |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:59:02 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Stephen Berman wrote:
> seems to be at least a doc bug in INSTALL, which should explicitly say
> that pkg-config is required in order for Emacs to use certain libraries
It already says enough IMO
For some libraries, like Gtk+, fontconfig and ALSA, `configure' uses
pkg-config to find where those libraries are installed.
> The alternative would be to patch configure (or rather configure.in)
> to allow setting the standard configure time variables to override
> using pkg-config. This seems better to me in principle (though it
> might be judged not to be worth the effort);
It's not worth the effort. Just install pkg-config and move on.
> are there any platforms Emacs runs on that cannot use pkg-config but
> on which Emacs could use libxml2 etc.?
Not to my knowledge.