PKG_CHECK_MODULES output

[Alberto Simões]

On 10/22/06, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no> wrote:
> * "Alberto Simões"
>
> | I use pkg-config for some time, but noticed something today that I
> | think it wasnt before. Anyway, I am using
> |   PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GLIB], [glib-2.0])
> | and the output in the configure script is:
> |   checking for GLIB...
> |
> | It shouldn't be:
> |   checking for glib-2.0 ?
>
> Arguably, yes.  The problem with that is when people start embedding
> newlines and it quickly looks fairly ugly with:
>
> checking for         gtk+-2.0                                >= 2.6
>         pygtk-2.0                               >= 2.6
>         pygobject-2.0                   >= 2.6
>         gnome-python-2.0                >= 2.10
>         gnome-desktop-2.0               >= 2.10...
>
> Yes, it could be collapsed to something like:
>
> checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6 pygtk-2.0 >= 2.6 pygobject-2.0 >= 2.6
> gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.10 gnome-desktop-2.0 >= 2.10
>
> but it's not that much more readable.

I see your point. I would prefer this last option compared to the
current one, but probably is just me. I'll give a quick look to the
macro and check if I have any idea for a patch.

Cheers
Alberto

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Alberto Simões