Anybody else want to weigh in, here? So far I've got one 'yay' vote from Robert (but putting pkgconfig into contrib instead of latest). Fine by me. Any other votes?
--Chuck Charles Wilson wrote: > I've got pkgconfig ready for contribution to the cygwin distribution. > Since we're starting to get a few packages that include .pc files > (libxslt, libxml-2.0) we probably ought to have this. I've got version > 0.10.0 (released 2002-02-02) ready to. > > I think it should go in latest/pkgconfig/ alongside the autotools (and > not contrib). > > Votes? > > --Chuck > > setup.hint: > --------------------------------------------------- > category Devel > requires cygwin > sdesc "A utility used to retrieve information about installed libraries" > ldesc "The pkg-config program is used to retrieve information about > installed libraries in the system. It is typically used to compile and > link against one or more libraries. > > pkg-config retrieves information about packages from special metadata > files. These files are named after the package, with the extension .pc. > By default, pkg-config looks in the following directories: > ${PREFIX}/libdata/pkgconfig, ${LOCALBASE}/libdata/pkgconfig and > ${X11BASE}/libdata/pkgconfig for these files; it will also look in the > list of directories specified by the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable. > > The package name specified on the pkg-config command line is defined to > be the name of the metadata file, minus the .pc extension. If a library > can install multiple versions simultaneously, it must give each version > its own name (for example, GTK 1.2 might have the package name 'gtk+' > while GTK 2.0 has 'gtk+-2.0'). > > WWW: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/ > http://pkgconfig.sourceforge.net" > --------------------------------------------------- >