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- 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 version 2.13.1.1 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/s6/
- - for now: 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/
+ - for now: s6-dns version 2.4.1.0 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-dns/
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
@@ -29,6 +29,33 @@ 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
-------------