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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2025-04-28 07:48:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com> | 2025-04-28 07:48:57 +0000 |
| commit | c5b61a3acd295d33f143e947e196adda1430b814 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e1eee477dd3aa3bd515a62a9a7f22aae357fc24 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 2a23e74cca0bb3167916359b8eb4e2d1a55ca015 (diff) | |
| download | apaste-c5b61a3acd295d33f143e947e196adda1430b814.tar.gz | |
Prepare for 0.0.3.0; move to new system
Signed-off-by: Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 33 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ Build Instructions - A POSIX-compliant C development environment - GNU make version 3.81 or later - skalibs version 2.14.4.0 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/skalibs/ - - s6-networking version 2.7.0.5 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-networking/ + - s6-networking version 2.7.1.0 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-networking/ This software will run on any operating system that implements -POSIX.1-2008, available at: - https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ +POSIX.1-2024, available at: + https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/ * Standard usage @@ -27,6 +27,33 @@ POSIX.1-2008, available at: off them. +* pkg-config + ---------- + + pkg-config is a tool used by some Linux and BSD distributions, providing +a registry to store policy information about libraries exported by a +software package; that is supposed to make it easier to build software +depending on these libraries, by having a tool to automatically extract +the various flags to pass to the compiler and linker in order to correctly +build against these libraries. + This package supports pkg-config, but you need to explicitly ask for it: + - To use the pkg-config tool to *read* information from the registry and +use it to build *this* package: --with-pkgconfig[=PROG]. This assumes +PROG supports the pkg-config interface (as the popular pkgconf +implementation does). If PROG is not supplied, the PKG_CONFIG environment +variable is used to find the program to use, and if empty/unset, it defaults +to pkg-config. + - To build a .pc file for each library exported by this package, and then +install it to the pkg-config registry, in other words to *write* information +so that other software can use pkg-config to build against this package, +use --enable-pkgconfig. + + pkg-config and slashpackage (see below) configure options can be set +together, but the slashpackage convention provides its own installation +policies that generally make it unnecessary to use pkg-config. You +probably should not mix both. + + * Customization ------------- |