Re: [PATCH] Install pkgconfig file for libpoke

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> On Fr, 2021-02-26T19:56+0100, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Thomas.
>> Thanks for the patch.
>> 
>> > +dnl pkg-config description
>> > +AX_CREATE_PKGCONFIG_INFO('libpoke/poke.pc', , , 'libpoke')
>> 
>> Where is this macro defined?
>
> It's from ax_create_pkgconfig_info.m4 from autoconf-archive.
> I have version 2019.01.06 of that but the m4 file carries copyright headers
> from 2008 so it should have been there for some time.

Ok... then that file should be part of the patch as well.

However, there is a more general concern I have regarding this.

Used to the GNU world I am not that familiar with the usage of .pc files
and pkg-config, so please bear with me but... to what extent makes sense
for upstream projects to provide .pc files?  I would have thought it is
distros that are in the situation to better provide such files, because
it is them that actually have control on where the stuff gets installed,
and therefore the right link paths and include paths and the like...