Re: pkg-config wisdom

[Peter Johansson]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> In this case life would be better if all libraries had a ".la" file 
> and if Autoconf used libtool type functionality (e.g. consult the .la 
> files) as part of its testing.
Is there anything conceptually stopping us from writing a new 
AC_LINK_IFELSE that links using libtool? That would make life easier and 
avoid problems that only occur in configure and not when building the 
package (using libtool).


Peter