Re: autotools gives autopain

[Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>]

On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 13:47 +0300, Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote:

> You are probably not correct here Davyd, current gnome builds do require
> pkg-config to be installed.

I was specifically referring to autoconf and automake-*, however it also
applies to intltool, libtool and a bunch of other things (I think).

It is my opinion that while a build time dependence on pkg-config is not
desirable, sometimes it is unavoidable or even darned handy. In these
cases no build system on the planet is going to get us away from
pkg-config (I would also like to point out that pkg-config is 100x
better than anything else similar, and its use takes an awful lot of the
pain out of the usage of autoconf.

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