source: chapter08/pkgconf.xml@ 1e9ad78

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<sect1 id="ch-system-pkgconf" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="pkgconf.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>pkgconf</productname>
    <productnumber>&pkgconf-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&pkgconf-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Pkgconf-&pkgconf-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-pkgconf">
    <primary sortas="a-pkgconf">Pkgconf</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The pkgconf package is a 
    successor to pkg-config and contains a tool for passing the include path
    and/or library paths to build tools during the configure and make phases
    of package installations.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&pkgconf-fin-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&pkgconf-fin-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">

    <title>Installation of Pkgconf</title>
<!--
    <para>Pkgconf-2.0.0 explicitly errors when attempting to run
    <option>- -modversion</option> with multiple arguments, even if these
    arguments are constraints for the same package.  This breaks many
    packages in BLFS. Run this sed to reinstate the old
    output for pkgconf:</para>

     <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '1330,1336s|^|//|' cli/main.c</userinput></screen>
-->
    <para>Prepare Pkgconf for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr              \
            --disable-static           \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/pkgconf-&pkgconf-version;</userinput></screen>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>To maintain compatibility with the original Pkg-config create two
    symlinks:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">ln -sv pkgconf   /usr/bin/pkg-config
ln -sv pkgconf.1 /usr/share/man/man1/pkg-config.1</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-pkgconf" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Pkgconf</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>pkgconf, pkg-config (link to pkgconf), and bomtool</seg>
        <seg>libpkgconf.so</seg>
        <seg>/usr/share/doc/pkgconf-&pkgconf-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="pkgconf">
        <term><command>pkgconf</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Returns meta information for the specified library or
          package</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-pkgconf pkgconf">
            <primary sortas="b-pkgconf">pkgconf</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="bomtool">
        <term><command>bomtool</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Generates a Software Bill Of Materials from pkg-config .pc
          files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-pkgconf bomtool">
            <primary sortas="b-bomtool">bomtool</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libpkgconf">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpkgconf</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Contains most of pkgconf's functionality, while allowing
          other tools like IDEs and compilers to use its frameworks</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-pkgconf libpkgconf">
            <primary sortas="c-libpkgconf">libpkgconf</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </sect2>

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