Re: [PATCH] kconfig: do not require pkg-config on make {menu,n}config

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> Meelis Roos reported a {menu,n}config regression:
> 
>  "I have libncurses devel package installed in the default system
>   location (as do 99%+ on actual developers probably) and in this
>   case, pkg-config is useless.  pkg-config is needed only when
>   libraries and headers are installed in non-default locations but
>   it is bad to require installation of pkg-config on all the machines
>   where make menuconfig would be possibly run."
> 
> For {menu,n}config, do not use pkg-config if it is not installed.
> For {g,x}config, keep checking pkg-config since we really rely on it
> for finding the installation paths of the required packages.
> 
> Fixes: 4ab3b80159d4 ("kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config")
> Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>

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Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx)



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