From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: configure's dependency on pkg-config Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:01:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87pqgybgx8.fsf@escher.home> <87boshgedt.fsf@escher.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321279311 20488 80.91.229.12 (14 Nov 2011 14:01:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:01:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 14 15:01:47 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RPx6U-0000CN-Ub for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:01:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47518 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPx6U-0001Fi-Ic for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:01:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44242) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPx6Q-00019G-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:01:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPx6K-0003Bn-RZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:01:38 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:37069 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPx6K-0003BP-Mu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:01:32 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAMkewU5FxKMD/2dsb2JhbABCqX6BBoFyAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiBW3DIl/BIgQmW2ESA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,509,1315195200"; d="scan'208";a="147855749" Original-Received: from 69-196-163-3.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.163.3]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 14 Nov 2011 09:01:31 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0C92E591EC; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:01:31 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87boshgedt.fsf@escher.home> (Stephen Berman's message of "Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:33:18 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.183 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146033 Archived-At: > and also list all of these libraries. The alternative would be to patch > configure (or rather configure.in) to allow setting the standard > configure time variables to override using pkg-config. This would be good, indeed (tho not of high priority). Patches welcome. Stefan