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+# Copyright 2009 Nathan Phillip Brink <ohnobinki@ohnopublishing.net>
+#
+# This file is a part of DistRen.
+#
+# Distren is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# DistRen is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with DistRen.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+# PKGCONFIG_OHNOWRAP(VARIABLE-PREFIX, MODULES)
+# see bug 13912 on freedesktop's bugzilla
+# $1 is the var to store stuff in
+# $2 is the listing of modules to pass to PKG_CHECK_MODULES
+#
+# Original code derived from and depending on pkg.m4 distributed with dev-util/pkgconfig-0.23
+# which is Copyright (c) 2004 Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
+#
+AC_DEFUN([PKGCONFIG_OHNOWRAP],
+[dnl
+AC_ARG_VAR([$1][_LDADD],[Linker names of libraries to link to for $1])dnl
+AC_ARG_VAR([$1][_LDFLAGS],[Linker flags for linking to libraries for $1])dnl
+
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES([$1], [$2])
+
+_PKG_CONFIG([$1][_LDADD], [libs-only], [$2])
+_PKG_CONFIG([$1][_LDFLAGS], [libs-only-other], [$2])
+
+$1[]_LDADD=$pkg_cv_[]$1[]_LDADD
+$1[]_LDFLAGS=$pkg_cv_[]$1[]_LDFLAGS
+])