On 09/27/2012 01:32 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > What emacs 24.2 has is an own copy (why?) of the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro > that is shipped as part of pkg-config, and that is today the de-facto > standard for library detection and library specific LIBS and CFLAGS > setting in open source software.
I don't know why Emacs has its own copy, but the point is that if it's the defacto standard, why doesn't Autoconf support it out of the box?