pkgconfig 0.14

Kevin Myers writes:
 > The install looked like it ought to be pretty simple, with only one
 > seemingly minor issue: pkg-config includes and is normally built
 > with glib 1.2.x on unix derivatives, but on windows you have to use
 > glib 2.0.x

 > I cd into the top level directory and run ./configure .  Everything
 > seems ok at that point.  Then I attempt to run make.  It quickly
 > blows up as it starts to build the included glib-1.2.8
 > subdirectory.

 > However, what I don't understand is why it ever started building
 > that subdirectory in the first place???

Hmm, the problem seems to be that the configure script tests for Win32
by checking $host before that shell variable has been set... The fix
for this is to move the AM_PROG_LIBTOOL and AC_PROG_CC calls in
configure.in before the AC_MSG_CHECKING([for Win32]) part, as those
calls generate the shell code that sets $host.

As a simple workaround, you can pass --host=i386-pc-mingw32 to the
configure script. This is what I do (just a habit, it shouldn't really
be necessary), which is why I haven't noticed this earlier, sorry.

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