Re: cross-compilation and proprietary pkg-config replacements (pcre-config, pcap-config, etc)

[Werner LEMBERG]

> It seems it's "en vogue" for libs to ship their own broken
> replacement rather than supplying a portable pkgconfig file...  the
> list is big, but these here are the most often used ones:
> pcap-config, pcre-config, freetype-config, apr-1-config,
> glib-config, gtk-config, ncursesw5-config, libmikmod-config, etc.

Uh, oh, FreeType provides a .pc file also!  And I've fixed all bug
reports w.r.t. freetype-config; in particular, it supports sysroot.
If you think something's still missing, please write a bug report or
provide a patch instead of whining behind my back, so to say :-)


    Werner