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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Build Instructions - A Linux-based system with a standard C development environment - GNU make version 3.81 or later - skalibs version 2.14.4.0 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/skalibs/ - - optional: nsss version 0.2.0.6 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/nsss/ + - optional: nsss version 0.2.1.0 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/nsss/ - optional: execline version 2.9.7.0 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/execline/ This software is Linux-specific. It will run on a Linux kernel, @@ -27,6 +27,33 @@ version 2.6.10 or later. 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 ------------- |