At least in Debian the pkg-config implementation is being phased out in favor of the pkgconf upstream project, which is maintained, interface compatible and fixes several of long-standing issues with pkg-config.
So it might be nice to replace references to pkg-config with pkgconf. Although the tool can still be accessed as pkg-config.
There's also an example to find the pkg-config tool using AC_CHECK_PROG, but that will not work for cross-compilation, so it would be better to recommend instead PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
Hi!
At least in Debian the
pkg-config
implementation is being phased out in favor of thepkgconf
upstream project, which is maintained, interface compatible and fixes several of long-standing issues withpkg-config
.So it might be nice to replace references to
pkg-config
withpkgconf.
Although the tool can still be accessed aspkg-config
.There's also an example to find the
pkg-config
tool usingAC_CHECK_PROG
, but that will not work for cross-compilation, so it would be better to recommend insteadPKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG