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Re:How to Write Portable C Without Complicating Your Build by derefr on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:54PM (#14006939)
This was my own thought when reading the article: how exactly do you use pkg-config to find libs+headers without autotools (or at least an m4 processing step)?
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Re:How to Write Portable C Without Complicating Your Build by hp on Friday March 31, 2017 @03:00PM (#14007005)
You can run pkg-config yourself, the m4 macros are just for convenience. Look at the shell the macros expand to to see how to do it.

Though I don't see the point in reinventing your own build system, exactly. Some people I trust seem to be getting into Meson these days but I havent tried it.

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