[Vm-dev] [OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm] configure change: use pkg-config (PKG_CONFIG) (#520)

[dcstes]

I'm closing this pull request.   For me this "configure" change works.

It's simply:

PKG_CHECK_MODULES(UNICODE_PLUGIN,[glib-2.0 pangocairo],,AC_PLUGIN_DISABLE)

the "PKG_CHECK_MODULES" macro checks whether glib-2.0 and pangocairo are installed VIA the pkg-config tool.

My understanding is that GTK uses pkg-config exactly for this purpose.

But it's true that any change to 'configure' has some risk associated to it (it may break things on some other platforms).   Because I have a workaround, I'm closing the request.

I'll just open a request to document in the README that we have discussed the issue, so that somebody who stumbles upon the same issue in the future, knows about it.

It's seems likely that this issue will come up again - on different platforms.


-- 
You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/pull/520#issuecomment-694732822
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/attachments/20200918/697dd438/attachment.html>