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Last change on this file since 1586494 was 1586494, checked in by Randy McMurchy <randy@…>, 19 years ago

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7<!ENTITY pkgconfig-download-http "http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/releases/pkgconfig-&pkgconfig-version;.tar.gz">
8<!ENTITY pkgconfig-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/pkgconfig-&pkgconfig-version;.tar.gz">
9<!ENTITY pkgconfig-size "604 KB">
10<!ENTITY pkgconfig-buildsize "5.2 MB">
11<!ENTITY pkgconfig-time "0.22 SBU">
12]>
13
14<sect1 id="pkgconfig" xreflabel="pkgconfig-&pkgconfig-version;">
15<sect1info>
16<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
17<date>$Date$</date>
18</sect1info>
19<?dbhtml filename="pkgconfig.html"?>
20<title><application>pkgconfig</application>-&pkgconfig-version;</title>
21
22<sect2>
23<title>Introduction to <application>pkgconfig</application></title>
24
25<para>The <application>pkgconfig</application> package contains
26tools for passing the include path and/or library paths to build tools during
27the <command>make</command> file execution.</para>
28
29<sect3><title>Package information</title>
30<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
31<listitem><para>Download (HTTP):
32<ulink url="&pkgconfig-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
33<listitem><para>Download (FTP):
34<ulink url="&pkgconfig-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
35<listitem><para>Download size: &pkgconfig-size;</para></listitem>
36<listitem><para>Estimated disk space required:
37&pkgconfig-buildsize;</para></listitem>
38<listitem><para>Estimated build time:
39&pkgconfig-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
40</sect3>
41
42</sect2>
43
44<sect2>
45<title>Installation of <application>pkgconfig</application></title>
46
47<para>Install <application>pkgconfig</application> by running the following
48commands:</para>
49
50<screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
51make &amp;&amp;
52make install</command></userinput></screen>
53
54</sect2>
55
56<sect2>
57<title>Configuring <application>pkgconfig</application></title>
58
59<para>The default setting for <envar>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</envar> is
60<filename>/usr/lib/pkgconfig</filename> because of the prefix used to
61install pkgconfig. You may add to <envar>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</envar> by exporting
62additional paths on your system where <application>pkgconfig</application>
63files are installed. Note that <envar>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</envar> is only needed
64when compiling packages, not during run-time.</para>
65
66</sect2>
67
68<sect2>
69<title>Contents</title>
70
71<para>The <application>pkgconfig</application> package contains
72<command>pkg-config</command>.</para>
73
74</sect2>
75
76<sect2><title>Description</title>
77
78<sect3><title>pkg-config</title>
79<para><command>pkg-config</command> is a function that returns meta information
80for the specified library.</para></sect3>
81
82</sect2>
83
84</sect1>
85
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