pkg-config --exists does not check Requires: any longer

[Peter O'Gorman]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:16:08PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] "Peter O'Gorman" 
 
> | We have worked around this, patch below, but wonder if the above
> | behaviour is intentional?
> 
> The m4 macro should certainly not be broken and I suspect the --exists
> handling is broken too.

The m4 macro uses --exists --print-errors to check the package exists
and then uses --cflags, --libs with stderr redirected to /dev/null to
populate the _CFLAGS and _LIBS variables, so it's the same problem, and
is fixed by recursing through Requires: when checking --exists.

Thanks!

Peter
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