On 31 Oct 2014 16:50, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> 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.
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
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