Remove the --with-pkg-config-prog configure option

* configure.ac (--with-pkg-config-prog): Remove.
Use the PKG_CONFIG environment variable instead if you need it.

* etc/NEWS: Mention this.

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 91e51d681d2..dd63aa0812b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2014-05-02  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
+        * configure.ac (--with-pkg-config-prog): Remove.
+        Use the PKG_CONFIG environment variable instead if you need it.
+
         * configure.ac: Use pkg-config's pkg.m4, rather than reinventing it.
         Add explicit AC_SUBST's where needed.
         * autogen.sh (progs): Add pkg-config.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 27312cac3ab..81b8537f0bd 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -304,15 +304,6 @@ OPTION_DEFAULT_ON([compress-install],
   [don't compress some files (.el, .info, etc.) when installing.  Equivalent to:
 make GZIP_PROG= install])
 
-AC_ARG_WITH([pkg-config-prog],dnl
-[AS_HELP_STRING([--with-pkg-config-prog=FILENAME],
-                  [file name of pkg-config for finding GTK and librsvg])])
-if test "X${with_pkg_config_prog}" != X; then
-   if test "${with_pkg_config_prog}" != yes; then
-      PKG_CONFIG="${with_pkg_config_prog}"
-   fi
-fi
-
 AC_ARG_WITH(gameuser,dnl
 [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-gameuser=USER],[user for shared game score files])])
 test "X${with_gameuser}" != X && test "${with_gameuser}" != yes \
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 15c01607b1f..5a4410c685c 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ should be able to work around the problem either by porting the Emacs
 undumping code to GCC under IRIX, or by configuring --with-wide-int,
 or by sticking with Emacs 24.4.
 
+---
+** The configure option `--with-pkg-config-prog' has been removed.
+Use the PKG_CONFIG environment variable instead if you need to.
+
 
 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.5