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ITP: pkgconfig
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 02:10:13 -0500
- Subject: ITP: pkgconfig
I've got pkgconfig ready for contribution to the cygwin distribution.
Since we're starting to get a few packages that include .pc files
(libxslt, libxml-2.0) we probably ought to have this. I've got version
0.10.0 (released 2002-02-02) ready to.
I think it should go in latest/pkgconfig/ alongside the autotools (and
not contrib).
Votes?
--Chuck
setup.hint:
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category Devel
requires cygwin
sdesc "A utility used to retrieve information about installed libraries"
ldesc "The pkg-config program is used to retrieve information about
installed libraries in the system. It is typically used to compile and
link against one or more libraries.
pkg-config retrieves information about packages from special metadata
files. These files are named after the package, with the extension .pc.
By default, pkg-config looks in the following directories:
${PREFIX}/libdata/pkgconfig, ${LOCALBASE}/libdata/pkgconfig and
${X11BASE}/libdata/pkgconfig for these files; it will also look in the
list of directories specified by the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.
The package name specified on the pkg-config command line is defined to
be the name of the metadata file, minus the .pc extension. If a library
can install multiple versions simultaneously, it must give each version
its own name (for example, GTK 1.2 might have the package name 'gtk+'
while GTK 2.0 has 'gtk+-2.0').
WWW: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
http://pkgconfig.sourceforge.net";
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