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When cross-compiling, CURL_CHECK_PKGCONFIG was checking for the cross
pkg-config using ${host}-pkg-config.
The gold standard for doing this correctly is pkg-config's own macro,
PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG. However, on the assumption that you have a good
reason not to use that directly (reduced dependencies for maintainer
builds?), the behaviour of cURL's version should at least match.
PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG uses AC_PATH_TOOL, which ultimately ends up trying
${host_alias}-pkg-config; this is not quite the same as what cURL does,
and may differ because ${host} has been run through config.sub. For
instance, when cross-building to the armhf architecture on Ubuntu,
${host_alias} is arm-linux-gnueabihf while ${host} is
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf. This may also have been the cause of the
problem reported at http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-04/0224.html.
AC_PATH_TOOL is significantly simpler than cURL's current code, and
dates back to well before the current minimum of Autoconf 2.57, so let's
use it instead.
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README
Curl is a command line tool for transferring data specified with URL
syntax. Find out how to use curl by reading the curl.1 man page or the
MANUAL document. Find out how to install Curl by reading the INSTALL
document.
libcurl is the library curl is using to do its job. It is readily
available to be used by your software. Read the libcurl.3 man page to
learn how!
You find answers to the most frequent questions we get in the FAQ document.
Study the COPYING file for distribution terms and similar. If you distribute
curl binaries or other binaries that involve libcurl, you might enjoy the
LICENSE-MIXING document.
CONTACT
If you have problems, questions, ideas or suggestions, please contact us
by posting to a suitable mailing list. See http://curl.haxx.se/mail/
All contributors to the project are listed in the THANKS document.
WEB SITE
Visit the curl web site for the latest news and downloads:
http://curl.haxx.se/
GIT
To download the very latest source off the GIT server do this:
git clone git://github.com/bagder/curl.git
(you'll get a directory named curl created, filled with the source code)
NOTICE
Curl contains pieces of source code that is Copyright (c) 1998, 1999
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan. This notice is included here to comply with the
distribution terms.