[article] trimming down autoconf's configure scripts by using pkg-config

[Daniel Stone]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:26:16PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
> Gabor Gombas wrote:
> >WTF are you smoking? How a language is interpreted (compiled to byte
> >code or machine code, translated to some other language, or executed
> >immediately) has nothing to do with the definition of "language".
> 
> How so? Just because a C program does everything with function names,
> doesn't make it any less a C program. Autoconf is just M4 macros which
> doesn't make it any less M4.
> 
> Like any library, you need to learn the parameter naming and passing
> conventions.
> 
> >You can write autoconf source code. You can "compile" it using autoconf.
> >You can execute the result. You can not even complain that the compiled
> >version is a shell script that requires an external program (/bin/sh) to
> >run, because for example the compiled version of Java programs also
> >require an external program (the Java VM) to run.
> 
> M4 is being used as a "description language" for an autoconf "configure"
> machine-generator. The generator outputs a machine in the form of executable
> shell code ("configure").

Can you guys please take it somewhere else?
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