Re: Libtool and Pkg-Config

[Havoc Pennington]

Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:
> On Apr 21, 2001, Eric Lemings <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > 2.0 spawned a separate tool called pkg-config that allows all packages
> > to use one tool rather than several different scripts to query compile
> > flags, link flags, and other configuration data.
> 
> What I don't understand is how pkg-config is going to find the
> configuration info of the various packages.  I hope it's not going to
> require having them all installed in the same prefix. 

Of course not, the whole point of the -config scripts was to avoid
that. Well, one important point anyhow.

There's a PKG_CONFIG_PATH that controls where pkg-config looks for the
data files. So now you don't actually have to do PATH, just
PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

Havoc