pkgconfig-0.15.0

Introduction to pkgconfig

The pkgconfig package contains tools for passing the include path and/or library path to the compiler during the make script.

Package information

Installation of pkgconfig

Install pkgconfig by running the following commands:

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

Configuring pkgconfig

Add to your system or personal profile:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig

The default settings for PKG_CONFIG_PATH are /lib/pkgconfig, /usr/lib/pkgconfig and /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. These settings are hard-coded and do not have to be exported with the additional paths.

Contents

The pkgconfig package contains pkg-config.

Description

pkg-config

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