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1842	Linking against libparrot not as documented	plobsing		"How do you link against libparrot? Easy - use pkg-config like docs/embed.pod tells you.

Except NONE of those commands work!

A little experimenting with pkg-config or a casual glance at the pkg-config source would let anyone know that it does not recurse into subdirectories, so pkgconfig/parrot/2.9.1/parrot.pc is Less Than Useful.

This is a blocker for anyone who is trying to link against libparrot The Right Way.

For the full details of why this happened, check out a previous attempt to remedy this (as well as other issues): TT #735.

If we want to be able to support multiple installed versions of parrot using the current install file policy, pkg-config is not going to cut it. I suggest we abandon pkg-config as a solution, and move to what rakudo is doing: pull everything from parrot_config."	bug	closed	normal	2.10	embed/extend	2.10.0	high	fixed