blitz/genode — comment on commit 889243fb42c802440effc9254873e799336f4045
File: ports/src/noux-pkg/slashem/target.mk line 6
By blitz:

On Fr, 2012-01-06 at 02:20 -0800, Norman Feske wrote:
> As far as I know, configure tests for such features using compile and linking tests (e.g., it looks if compiling a made-up source code that includes a certain header fails or not). pkg-config is used to query arguments for the compiler and linker needed to use a certain library - not for the actual checks. If pkg-config, say for SDL, returns nothing, the corresponding test for SDL would not put -lSDL at the linker command line and the test would fail. So such problems wouldn't go unnoticed.

I'll play around with this and see what happens. ;)