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authorsobomax <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>2001-04-29 19:23:21 +0800
committersobomax <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>2001-04-29 19:23:21 +0800
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Add pkgconfig 0.5.0, an utility used to retrieve information about
installed libraries.
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+The pkg-config program is used to retrieve information about installed
+libraries in the system. It is typically used to compile and link against one
+or more libraries.
+
+pkg-config retrieves information about packages from special metadata files.
+These files are named after the package, with the extension .pc. By default,
+pkg-config looks in the directory ${PREFIX}/libata/pkgconfig for these files;
+it will also look in the list of directories specified by the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+environment variable.
+
+The package name specified on the pkg-config command line is defined to be the
+name of the metadata file, minus the .pc extension. If a library can install
+multiple versions simultaneously, it must give each version its own name (for
+example, GTK 1.2 might have the package name "gtk+" while GTK 2.0 has
+"gtk+-2.0").
+
+WWW: http://pkgconfig.sourceforge.net