On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 09:30:53PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I think this is largely because the official PKG_CHECK_MODULES Autoconf > macro doesn’t fail by default when pkg-config is not found (which may or > may not be a good idea, depending on the package.)
Then it is the authors' responsibility to either let the configuration fail, or to include tests that do not rely on pkg_config, in my opinion. Andreas