[Development] Detecting hunspell in virtualkeyboard: do we really need pkg-config?

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 08:10:15AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> I started to work on auto detecting hunspell in virtualkeyboard and later 
> found out that:
> 
> (1) It is currently relying on pkg-config to do the job.
> (2) If the embedded code is present is preferred over the system version.
> 
> I find (1) rather strange except maybe if pkg-config gives some other info 
> apart from the -l flag. If that's not the case the dependency is avoidable 
> with a simple config.test.
> 
> Would it be preferrable to keep it like this or should I push my chabges to 
> gerri? (and if so, to which branch? I'm kind of disconeected from Qt 
> development thhese days).
> 
> With respect (2): normally one would prefer the system lib over the embedded 
> one. Is there a reason to keep things as they are or should I revert this 
> logic? (maybe in the above patch if ACKed).
> 
before you spend any more time on this, have a look at
https://codereview.qt-project.org/175873 first.
(volunteers welcome, btw)