[Rpm-maint] nss/nspr location for configure

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Saturday 2008-11-29 08:27, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 00:20 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>> On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> 
>> > rpm's configure script cannot find nss/nspr even though these are
>> > installed. As it turns out, configure.ac does not use nss/nspr's
>> > pkg-config files
>> 
>> Unless I'm mistaken, upstream nss and nspr do not ship pkgconfig files, 
>> they're distro additions and thus depending on them could be fragile.  (I 
>> wonder if distro packagers haven't bothered to submit the *.pc they add 
>> upstream or if upstream has rejected them.)
>
>This patch is pointless.

Of course Ville is right that, as long as the .pc files (or
nspr-config) is not upstream, inclusion does not make sense, but the
patch clearly has a point, namely to have me NOT having to manually
find nspr in the depths of my distribution myself, but let it do that
automatically.