Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] detect openssl via pkg-config if it's available

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 24 May 2012 16:31:04 Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:
> > Newer versions of openssl ship with pkg-config files, so if we can detect
> > it via those, do so.  If that fails, fall back to the classic method.
> 
> thanks for your contribution.  It seems like a big change in the way
> configure will work.  I think that if we want to use pkg-config then we
> should use it for any external library involved, not just openssl.

zlib, pcre, uuid, and gnutls can be updated to search pkg-config, but gcrypt 
and gpg-error cannot because the upstream there is being pig-headed.

plus, requiring .pc files from these libs would imply a recent version for some 
since many haven't started providing them until recently.

i don't personally have a problem requiring information to be provided by .pc 
files when the respective projects have started offering them in recent 
versions, but others might.  and seeing as how i'm not the maintainer, i don't 
get to make the final decision.

lemme know which way you want to go, and i can send out an update that also 
checks for zlib/pcre/uuid/gnutls via pkg-config.
-mike

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