compiling without pkg-config

compiling without pkg-config

[Mike Gran]

Hi-

I note that even when BDW_GC_CFLAGS and BDW_GC_LIBS are set
when configure is called, configure still fails if pkg-config isn't present 
on the system.  pkg-config isn't otherwise necessary but the autoconf
macroscheck for its presence before considering BDW_GC_*.

Here, I'm talking about the daily Guile tarball.  pkg.m4 gets pulled into
aclocal.m4but doesn't appear in the m4 directory.

One can work around a missing pkg-config by setting 
PKG_CONFIG="true" at configure time.

This appears to be fixed in the pkg.m4 in pkg-config master.

-Mike

Re: compiling without pkg-config

[Neil Jerram]

Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi-
>
> I note that even when BDW_GC_CFLAGS and BDW_GC_LIBS are set
> when configure is called, configure still fails if pkg-config isn't present 
> on the system.  pkg-config isn't otherwise necessary but the autoconf
> macroscheck for its presence before considering BDW_GC_*.
>
> Here, I'm talking about the daily Guile tarball.  pkg.m4 gets pulled into
> aclocal.m4but doesn't appear in the m4 directory.
>
> One can work around a missing pkg-config by setting 
> PKG_CONFIG="true" at configure time.
>
> This appears to be fixed in the pkg.m4 in pkg-config master.
>
> -Mike

Thanks.  I added some text to README to cover this:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=guile.git;a=commit;h=ef73663576c54d04bd9f1dfe1cdf587515e5cc71.
Do you think that that's sufficient?

   Neil