waf and pkg-config

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 05:23:19PM +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> trying to fix systemd detection, I found out that waf and pkg-config is simply 
> not working.
> 
> I do
> 
>     conf.check_cfg(package='libsystemd-daemon', args='--cflags --libs',
>                    msg='Checking for libsystemd-daemon')
> 
> and in the end I can't simply use libsystem-daemon as a dependency. So *I* 
> have to implement library detection again with CHECK_LIB and check all names 
> pkg-config might return on different Linux version?

See source4/lib/tls/wscript:24 for an example.

Cheers,

Jelmer