Working with gtkmm libraries

[Sean Kelley <sean sweng gmail com>]

While learning more about gtkmm, I've struggled initially to understand
the automake and autoconf approach.  I came across a few tutorials:


http://www.openismus.com/documents/linux/automake/automake.shtml
http://www.openismus.com/documents/linux/using_libraries/using_libraries.shtml

Interestingly enough, until I learned about pkg-config I could not get
the deps to be autogenerated.  Is it possible to do automake and
autoconf without pkg-config?  Once I added the PKG_CHECK.. and the
DEPS_CFLAGS and the DEPS_LIBS flags it picked up the deps.  I am
just curious how one would make this work without having pkg-config.

Thanks,

Sean


configure.ac
----------------
AC_INIT(hello.cc)

PKG_CHECK_MODULES(DEPS, gtkmm-2.4 )
AC_SUBST(DEPS_CFLAGS)
AC_SUBST(DEPS_LIBS)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(hello,0.1)
AC_PROG_CC
AC_PROG_CXX
AC_OUTPUT(Makefile)

Makefile.am
----------------
INCLUDES = $(DEPS_CFLAGS)
LIBS = $(DEPS_LIBS)
bin_PROGRAMS = hello
hello_SOURCES = hello.cc