[article] trimming down autoconf's configure scripts by using pkg-config

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Gabor Gombas <gombasg at sztaki.hu> schrieb:

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> > More portable than the humongous shell script named configure.
> 
> Huh? Name a language that is available on more platforms than a Bourne
> shell...

java ?

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> The problem is that there can be hundreds of such simple features with
> non-trivial dependencies between them, so you still need a higher-level
> control language - like autoconf.

autoconf is no control language. it is an collection of macros for
generating shellcripts which then generate makfiles ...



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