Re: [Monotone-devel] configure failing in MinGW

[Zack Weinberg]

On 10/21/07, Stephen Leake <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> In cygwin, I found these macros in /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4. That
> file is part of the pkg-config package.
>
> So if I don't have pkg-config, then I don't have those macros, so they
> can't be part of a test for whether I have pkg-config :(.
[...]
> Or we could include pkg.m4 in montone/m4. I've tested that solution;
> it allows running 'configure' with MinGW, without
> '--without-system-pcre', and the resulting pcre_config.h still has
> PCRE_STATIC set to 1. And 'make' succeeds. So this is a workable
> solution.
>
> Or these two macros could be expanded by hand in montone/m4/pcre.m4.
> However, there is not much else in pkg.m4, so it would be much cleaner
> to just include pkg.m4 in monotone/m4.

As the person who wrote this code I vote for including pkg.m4.

zw