[CMake] pkg-config file format versus CMake packages

[Brad King]

On 05/31/2018 01:41 PM, paul wrote:
> This is because cmake lacks native support for pkg-config. It only uses the
> pkg-config CLI, which works fine for makefiles.
> 
> Instead cmake needs to make a target for each `.pc` found. This could be
> possible if it used libpkgconf instead.

That sounds like a great feature that should be worked out first
to see how far it gets us.  Please bring it up on the developer list.

Thanks,
-Brad