[Mingw-cross-env-list] native pkgconf (was Tutorial buglet?)

[Tony Theodore]

On 13/08/2013, at 10:41 PM, Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> MXE used to include a native version of pkg-config and I think we're going 
>> to have to start bundling more native tools[2]. Automake 1.14 already breaks 
>> some packages and it won't be long till people start noticing.
> 
> I fully agree.
> 
> Also, pkg-config handles the accumulating libraries
> for static linking almost automatically and very
> well, while the hand-written *-config scripts usually
> have some flaws in that regard.

What do you think about using pkgconf[1] instead? It's a minimal dependency 
drop-in replacement used by FreeBSD and Gentoo - and from browsing the code, 
looks like it would be easier to implement your Cflags.private proposal.

Cheers,

Tony


[1] https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47996