From 851cdc362c11c9475f6a8f1c493c2f550c15555c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Bercot Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:56:55 +0000 Subject: Move to new system, support pkg-config Signed-off-by: Laurent Bercot --- INSTALL | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 358a8d7..03fd8ab 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ Build Instructions - A POSIX-compliant C development environment - GNU make version 3.81 or later - - skalibs version 2.14.3.0 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/skalibs/ - - (optional but recommended): s6-networking version 2.7.0.4 or later: + - skalibs version 2.14.4.0 or later: https://skarnet.org/software/skalibs/ + - (optional but recommended): 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 @@ -29,6 +29,33 @@ libraries in /usr/lib. 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 ------------- -- cgit v1.3.1