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

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Miles Bader <miles.bader at necel.com> schrieb:

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> > I can actually live with a very simple c program that can probe for a
> > particular feature. I have even tried a builder that comes as c source
> > code that you build first. You dont even need make at all.
> 
> You have to figure out how to compile and link a simple program
> (one of the things configure does)...

Why probing for every individual package anyway ? 

Why can't we just define strict interfaces and maintain an database
for each target system, which tells the buildsystem what features 
the target system has. Most of that could be done via pkg-config.


cu
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