PKG_CHECK_MODULES considered harmful?
One significant problem with PKG_CHECK_MODULES is that it causes failures where it should not. If a user installs libfoo in /p/a/t/h and invokes a configure script with LDFLAGS=-L/p/a/t/h, the user is justified in expecting the configury to find libfoo. But, the user also must set PKG_CONFIG_PATH so that the configure script can find foo.pc in … Read more