pkg.m4 should not forbid pkg-config environment variables from configure.ac

Enrico Weigelt weigelt at metux.de
Sun Apr 6 10:46:56 PDT 2008


* Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> schrieb:
> Is there some reason that pkg.m4 forbids all pkg-config environment 
> variables except PKG_CONFIG and PKG_CONFIG_PATH from configure.ac files?

Perhaps they've simply been forgotten ? ;-o

> I have a reason to use PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR in a configure.ac file 
> but it is forbid. 

Why exactly do you want to set it from within configure.ac instead 
of from the outside (ie. packaging system) ?

> I have attached a patch that fixes the problem for me in pkg.m4.

+10


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