Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH 1/5] use pkg-config to check zlib deps if available

[Mike Frysinger]

On 31 Oct 2014 16:50, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:
> > Newer versions of these packages ship with pkg-config files, so if we can
> > detect it via those, do so.  If that fails, fall back to the old methods.
> 
> so far I always tried to stay as far away from pkg-config as possible,
> but if that is used by distro maintainers then we should probably
> reconsider it.

distro maintainers extremely prefer it over each package doing its own (limited 
testing) in build files (i.e. configure) or using legacy xxx-config scripts.  
pkg-config is way more reliable than either of those.
-mike

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