To ensure that pkg-config has been built and updated before running the
test suite, complete the top directory before descending to the check
directory.
There is really no reason to manually vet and run all the autotools.
That's what autoreconf is for. It has the added bonus that it will
descend to the glib subdirectory and rebuild the autotools there. The
handling of configure is also fixed as the previous --no-configure code
was completely broken.
This is basically the xorg autogen.sh, so we can be pretty confident
it'll work as advertised.
The bundled popt handled the case of Cflags or Libs with no value, but
newer popt linked through --with-installed-popt chokes parsing it into
a vector. This is arguably a popt bug in poptParseArgvString, but I
guess they expect you not to ask it to split an empty string.
In order to avoid having the COPYING file from automake included in
the distribution, add a copy of the GPLv2 for pkg-config. This matches
the source files, which all specify GPLv2+.
The COPYING file from upstream popt has also been added for the
bundled popt sources.
Allow paths and other components to contain shell metacharacters, but
escape them on output. White space has to be escaped in the input
files using quotes or backslashes
Freedesktop.org #3571
The one imported into pkg-config has seen very little maintenance, so
let's give users the option to use the upstream version. The default is
to use the included sources, but it can search for the system library
using --with-installed-popt.
The pkg-config(1) manual includes a lot of details behind pkg-config,
but not the background and usage patterns. This guide tries to provide
users and developers with a starting point for pkg-config.
* parse.c: On Win32, if the value of a a variable other than the
"prefix" one starts with the non-overridden value of "prefix",
then replace that prefix, too, with the run-time one.
To avoid shadowing warnings, rename a 'p' variable to 'q'.
* pkg-config.1: Corresponding update.
* main.c
* pkg.h: Move the Win32 redefinition of PKG_CONFIG_PC_PATH from
main.c to pkg.h as it now is needed in pkg.c, too.
* check/common, check/config.sh.in, check/Makefile.am,
configure.in: Make it possible to check for configure variables in
the check scripts. So far, only direct/indirect is exposed.
