On 10/31, Mike Frysinger wrote:
On 31 Oct 2014 16:50, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:
> Newer versions of these packages ship with pkg-config files, so if we can
> detect it via those, do so. If that fails, fall back to the old methods.
so far I always tried to stay as far away from pkg-config as possible,
but if that is used by distro maintainers then we should probably
reconsider it.
I favour pkg-config too. It would make our lives a lot more simpler.
distro maintainers extremely prefer it over each package doing its own (limited
testing) in build files (i.e. configure) or using legacy xxx-config scripts.
pkg-config is way more reliable than either of those.
-mike