On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:46:09 -0600
"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@...> wrote:

>   Now I have no idea how to hack autotool files. Since there are
> pkgconfig files, doing it should not be that hard, but other than
> starting reading the "Gnu Autotools Manual", I don't have any quick
> and dirty reference.

A quick poke through a random configure.in and some consultation with
Google suggests you need PKG_CHECK_MODULES:

https://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/pkgconfig/pkg_check_modules.html

Note the second sentence attached to "list-of-modules" under the syntax breakdown.

E. Liddell