[bug #48348] gnustep-config doesn't do what I want

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #48348 (project gnustep):

Providing a pkg-config file could work, but it does have to make a few
assumptions. See the attached patch for what I came up with. It currently
doesn't install because it would require a patch to GNUstep-make, too. In
particular, GNUstep would need to identify when installing to the fhs
filesystem layout in order to put this file in a location searched for
pkg-config (ie the output of "pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config"). If
not, GNUstep.sh would need to also define $PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

Seems like a reasonable solution, but pkg-config hard-codes where libraries
and such go and GNUstep-make does not. GNUstep-make always checks GNUstep.conf
for were to install and look for libraries, something the .pc file will never
be able to do because pkg-config does not have this type of functionality.

(file #37741)
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