Bug#884798: lintian could complain about pkg-config uses that fail to use

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Helmut,

> The tag description suggests that pkg-config could have been invoked
> directly. While that is a common way to fail cross compilation, the
> pattern does not check that other case.

Good call. I've renamed it to the more-generic:

  autotools-pkg-config-macro-not-cross-compilation-safe

> I think you should remove the second paragraph from the description.

Done.

> I also wonder what the best advise actually is. Of course using
> PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG is "best" in a sense, but it behaves subtly
> different.
[…]

Unfortunately I'm not enough of an Autotools (ab)?user to have any
real input here. I defer to your esteemed and battle-hardenened
insight :)


Best wishes,

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