Re: 2.4 commit review

On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 21:59, Howard Chu wrote:
> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > Howard, what's your opinion/thought on adding this for master/RE25?  Ryan tested it and it worked for him.
>
> My personal opinion is that pkg-config is garbage and in all my experience it has
> only ever prevented me from building whatever I was working on at the time.

I get the feeling there's an interesting backstory here. I'm actually
quite surprised you've had a bad experience with pkg-config.
It's really quite useful and far easier than calling foo-config legacy scripts.

With regards to merging #8996, you didn't really answer Quanah's
question. I'll also point out that you're not being forced to use
openldap's pkg-config files.

Many people prefer pkg-config because of its simplicity in handling
library dependencies and header inclusions. I'm simply trying to
extend this simplicity to openldap.

Regards,

Hugh