Re: pkg-config wisdom

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Peter Johansson wrote:

> 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).

A complexity is that libtool itself is configured via configure so it 
can not use itself to configure itself.

Bob
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