[CMake] pkg-config file format versus CMake packages

[Brad King]

On 05/24/2018 07:39 PM, Paul Fultz II wrote:
>> On May 24, 2018, at 8:07 AM, Brad King wrote:
>> The `.pc` file format is too flat to lend itself well to representing
>> all the information we need.  
> 
> What do you mean? What information can't be represented?

Try running CMake's ExportImport test and take a look at the
files generated by export() and install(EXPORT).  If anyone
can use `.pc` files as a package representation for everything
that test does on all platforms then I'd like to see a proposal.

-Brad