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

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Wookey wrote:
> It's not really "en vogue", it's historic: many of the things that
> have their own *-config scripts are sufficiently old that they
> pre-date pkg-config so are not doing this just to be annoying. At the
> time they didn't have much choice.

Sometimes it is also done because not every system will have 
pkg-config, or the one which exists is not well maintained.  It can be 
done in addition to supporting pkg-config.

Bob
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