With the 7.0 release, readline has finally started shipping
pkg-config support in the form of a readline.pc file.
Unfortunately, most downstreams have yet to catch up with this
change: among Linux distributions in particular, Fedora Rawhide
seems to be the only one installing it at the moment.
Non-Linux operating systems have been faring much better in
this regard: both FreeBSD (through ports) and macOS (through
homebrew) include pkg-config support in their readline package.
This is great news for us, since those are the platforms where
pkg-config is more useful on account of them installing headers
and libraries outside of the respective default search paths.
Our implementation checks whether readline is registered as a
pkg-config package, and if so obtains CFLAGS and LIBS using the
tool; if not, we just keep using the existing logic.
This commit is best viewed with 'git show -w'.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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