Looks like there's mostly negative views of the idea of using pkg-config with autoconf at least over there:
The root of the thread, if you're interested: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2009-10/msg00132.html
Received on Fri Oct 23 2009 - 16:58:27 PST
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