lfs/chapter06/pkg-config.xml

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

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

  <title>Pkg-config-&pkg-config-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-pkg-config">
    <primary sortas="a-Pkg-config">Pkg-config</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>The pkg-config package contains a tool for passing the include path
    and/or library paths to build tools during the configure and make file
    execution.</para>

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&pkg-config-ch6-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&pkg-config-ch6-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Pkg-config</title>

    <note><para>Pkg-Config will use an included version of Popt to parse
    command line options.  If an external version of Popt is desired, install
    that version using the <ulink
    url="&blfs-root;view/svn/general/popt.html">BLFS Popt build
    instructions</ulink> before installing Pkg-config.</para></note>


    <para>Fix a problem with one of Pkg-config's tests:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e '/!done/a\
        longArg = NULL;' popt/popt.c</userinput></screen>

    <para>Prepare Pkg-config for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="configure">GLIB_LIBS="-L/usr/lib -lglib-2.0" \
  GLIB_CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include" \
  ./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

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

    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>

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

    <para>Install the package:</para>

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

  </sect2>


  <sect2 id="contents-pkg-config" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Pkg-config</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>pkg-config</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

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

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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