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@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ Build Instructions - GNU make version 3.81 or later - skalibs version 2.14.4.0 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/skalibs/ - Optional (but recommended): execline version 2.9.7.0 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/execline/ - - s6 version 2.13.1.1 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ - - s6-dns version 2.4.0.1 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-dns/ + - s6 version 2.13.2.0 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ + - s6-dns version 2.4.1.0 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-dns/ - Depending on whether you build the SSL tools, bearssl version 0.6 or later: https://bearssl.org/ or libressl version 4.0.0 or later: https://libressl.org/ @@ -34,6 +34,33 @@ 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 ------------- |