]] Wookey > A second part of this problem is that foo-config scrips sometimes do > more than pkg-config does. They are used to supply other information > about the build environment. I understand that xapian is an example of > this.
Those scripts can wrap pkg-config, and pkg-config already knows how to provide user-defined variables, so this sounds like a problem that's solveable. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are