[CMake] looking for 2 features to help pkg-config pc files

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 27/03/18 21:35, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 27. März 2018, 21:25:51 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
>> Note that one downside to that is that people not using CMake cannot
>> make use of that. They still need a pkgconfig file. So in a sense,
>> pkgconfig is the common denominator everybody can use, regardless of
>> build system.
> 
> What happened with that autoconf macro that was able to read in .cmake files?

I don't know. But there's other build systems out there too. Like Meson, 
qmake, qbs... pkgconfig does seem like the sane thing to offer.

Basically, whenever I see a build system trying to invent its own 
package configuration system, xkcb 927 pops into my mind :-P