Re: how should package config files be installed

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Andy Falanga (afalanga) wrote:

> I want to distribute the correct *.pc files with the libraries I'm 
> building.  While it's a simple matter to find the format of this 
> file (by examining existing ones or online), I'd like to know if 
> there's a preferred procedure for generating these files.  What 
> should be done in order to make this work?

I am not sure what the correct procedure is, but I packages I maintain 
(and many others) use autoconf to configure a templated "foo.pc.in" 
and then install it using Automake.

Bob
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