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Re: [PATCH] config/debuginfod.m4: Rewrite with pkg-config

From: Aaron Merey <amerey at redhat dot com>
To: Simon Marchi <simark at simark dot ca>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 14:20:31 -0500
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config/debuginfod.m4: Rewrite with pkg-config
References: <20200304001516.494441-1-amerey@redhat.com> <522f67a3-c7ec-4dac-e0a9-c659e62168c3@simark.ca>

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 9:33 PM Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> wrote:
> Instead of calling pkg-config by hand, could we use the PKG_CHECK_MODULES
> autoconf macro?  It is distributed with pkg-config, and is typically the
> one used for that purpose.  We would have to pick a given pkg-config version
> (such as the latest as of today) and mandate that autoreconf/aclocal is ran
> with this pkg-config version.

The reason for calling out to pkg-config as opposed to using
PKG_CHECK_MODULES is that there were concerns raised over its
inclusion in the project due to the copyright of pkg.m4. It uses GPLv2+
but the copyright is not held by the Free Software Association.

Aaron

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