Pkg-config-0.19

Introduction to Pkg-config

The Pkg-config package contains tools for passing the include path and/or library paths to build tools during the make file execution.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.19.tar.gz
Download (FTP):
Download MD5 sum: 25f106d2cc82a0013f5bdc89875d5790
Download size: 947 KB
Estimated disk space required: 11 MB
Estimated build time: 0.21 SBU

Installation of Pkg-config

Note

Till version 0.18, this package was called Pkgconfig.

Install Pkg-config by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Configuring Pkg-config

The default setting for PKG_CONFIG_PATH is /usr/lib/pkgconfig because of the prefix used to install Pkg-config. You may add to PKG_CONFIG_PATH by exporting additional paths on your system where pkgconfig files are installed. Note that PKG_CONFIG_PATH is only needed when compiling packages, not during run-time.

Installed Program: pkg-config

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

pkg-config

is a function that returns meta information for the specified library.

Last updated on 2005-08-14 23:55:47 -0600

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