configure: fix cross pkg-config detection
When cross-compiling, CURL_CHECK_PKGCONFIG was checking for the cross pkg-config using ${host}-pkg-config. The gold standard for doing this correctly is pkg-config's own macro, PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG. However, on the assumption that you have a good reason not to use that directly (reduced dependencies for maintainer builds?), the behaviour of cURL's version should at least match. PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG uses AC_PATH_TOOL, which ultimately ends up trying ${host_alias}-pkg-config; this is not quite the same as what cURL does, and may differ because ${host} has been run through config.sub. For instance, when cross-building to the armhf architecture on Ubuntu, ${host_alias} is arm-linux-gnueabihf while ${host} is arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf. This may also have been the cause of the problem reported at http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-04/0224.html. AC_PATH_TOOL is significantly simpler than cURL's current code, and dates back to well before the current minimum of Autoconf 2.57, so let's use it instead.
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