I wrote that there seems some possibility that the
ExtUtils::PkgConfig had not been widely adopted by Perlers because it
itself is not a utility written in C Perl.
That's highly speculative in a writeup in which I tried to be generally
objective:
One might wonder why-when so many wild gestures of distress
have been witnessed, over the years, as Perl users and authors grapple
with the “external dependency” problem. Is it because this is an
interface to a tool that is not, itself, written in
Perl.
Anyway, it turns out that, lurking in the other neighborhoods of F/LOSS
software, there is a (non-CPAN, at this writing) project that implements
another variant of pkg-config in Perl. It's at
this Github repository (as of this
writing) and I've forked it to https://github.com/somian/pkg-config.
I do endorse the OpenBSD Perl pkgconfig
It's the best one I've found out there. But there's no CPAN / Perl
installer infrastructure put together for users in my repo yet. So it is
recommended that people with enough knowledge to work that little problem,
only, attempt to install from that codebase.
- UPDATE in 2013: Apr 01
- corrected mistatement above. Apr 01, 2013 at 17:30 UTC
