On Sun 17 Aug 2014 18:50:54 Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Wookey wrote: > > It's not really "en vogue", it's historic: many of the things that > > have their own *-config scripts are sufficiently old that they > > pre-date pkg-config so are not doing this just to be annoying. At the > > time they didn't have much choice. > > Sometimes it is also done because not every system will have > pkg-config, or the one which exists is not well maintained. It can be > done in addition to supporting pkg-config.
so build+install a pkg-config ? there are simple replacements that don't require any external libs like: https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf -mike
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