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diff --git a/devel/pkgconfig/pkg-descr b/devel/pkgconfig/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f61c1700e --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/pkgconfig/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +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 following directories: ${PREFIX}/libdata/pkgconfig, +${LOCALBASE}/libdata/pkgconfig and ${X11BASE}/libdata/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://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/ + http://pkgconfig.sourceforge.net |