Philip Brown writes: > so far, you seem to have described a situation that implies that autoconf > can work without pkgconfig, but pkgconfig isnt that useful without > autoconf. Sure it is, it can be used in simple hand-written Makefiles, or even directly from the command line. > You did not mention, however, why pkgconfig was suddenly added to > gimp1.3.7, when it was not neccessary for gimp1.2.x Because it's there (even on Win32), it would be stupid not to use it. >> However, using pkg-config makes the configure.in files *less* complex.) > really? Yes. Your comparisons of configure.in sizes between GIMP 1.2.3 and 1.3.7 is unfair, because there are obviously lots of other changes in there, too. --tml
