Hi Helmut,
> The tag description suggests that pkg-config could have been invoked
> directly. While that is a common way to fail cross compilation, the
> pattern does not check that other case.
Good call. I've renamed it to the more-generic:
autotools-pkg-config-macro-not-cross-compilation-safe
> I think you should remove the second paragraph from the description.
Done.
> I also wonder what the best advise actually is. Of course using
> PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG is "best" in a sense, but it behaves subtly
> different.
[…]
Unfortunately I'm not enough of an Autotools (ab)?user to have any
real input here. I defer to your esteemed and battle-hardenened
insight :)
Best wishes,
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