Re: How do I make a "-config" script?

[Tyler MacDonald]

Christopher Sean Morrison <address@hidden> wrote:
> >     Ok, thanks. Just a fleeting thought, such scripts are becoming a
> >more and more common convention and their entire purpose is to interface
> >with autoconf-substituted variables... maybe the time is coming where
> >this should be standardized?
> Tyler,
> 
> It's pretty trivial to make one of the *-config scripts by hand, or  
> even "automate" their generation by making them an autoconf template  
> (presuming someone doesn't use DESTDIR or relocate after the fact).   
> That said, I believe there have been a couple efforts to standardize  
> on an interface for those scripts.  The most notable one that  
> immediately comes to mind is the pkg-config project.
> 
> http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pkgconfig/

        Cool! I'll check that out.

        Thanks,
                Tyler