Re: [Valgrind-developers] Valgrind and pkg-config

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

On Monday 28 July 2008 16:15, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Some DRD regression tests link against the Qt4 library, and that is
> why there is a test for Qt4 in Valgrind's configure.in. That test
> currently uses built-in autoconf macro's like AC_TRY_COMPILE(). This
> is a rather cumbersome way to find out e.g. the path of Qt4 include
> files. Would it be OK to rewrite this test using the autoconf macro's
> provided by pkg-config, e.g. PKG_CHECK_EXISTS() ? This would add an
> extra requirement however when building Valgrind, and I'm not sure
> where to document this.

I prefer not; we spent already a lot of time and effort getting rid of
dependencies of various kinds.

How bad does the cumbersome code look?  Is it the Qt4 checking stuff
in configure.in r8465, or some other un-committed changes you have?

J