[Vorbis-dev] ogg.m4 in vorbis/m4 ?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Ralph Giles wrote:

> On 1-May-08, at 6:24 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> 
> > Shouldn't pkg-config be used instead of hand coded m4 macros?
> 
> What about systems without pkg-config?

Which systems are those? I thought pkg-config was pretty
universal by now.

> I have no objection to embedding the macros in the source tree. Maybe  
> it's time to make a shared m4 directory and import it with svn:external?

The main problem is that you need to keep it up to date.

I had quite a bit of trouble getting libvorbis cross compiling
from Linux to windows not working. I fixed it by removing
acinclude.m4 (and autogenerated file) because the one in SVN
had an old, broken version of the PKG_MODULE macro.

Erik
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