Package: pkg-config
Version: 0.21-1
Severity: minor
"man pkg-config" correctly indicates that a library name should be given
after any options:
SYNOPSIS
pkg-config [--modversion] [--help] [--print-errors] [--silence-errors]
[--cflags] [--libs] [--libs-only-L] [--libs-only-l] [--cflags-only-I]
[--variable=VARIABLENAME] [--define-variable=VARIABLENAME=VARIABLE‐
VALUE] [--uninstalled] [--exists] [--atleast-version=VERSION] [--exact-
version=VERSION] [--max-version=VERSION] [LIBRARIES...]
However, this important argument is not mentioned in the --help or
--usage messages:
$ pkg-config --help
Usage: pkg-config [OPTION...]
--version output version of pkg-config
<snip>
$ pkg-config --usage
Usage: pkg-config [-?] [--version] [--modversion]
[--atleast-pkgconfig-version=VERSION] [--libs] [--static]
[--short-errors] [--libs-only-l] [--libs-only-other] [--libs-only-L]
[--cflags] [--cflags-only-I] [--cflags-only-other]
[--variable=VARIABLENAME] [--define-variable=VARIABLENAME=VARIABLEVALUE]
[--exists] [--uninstalled] [--atleast-version=VERSION]
[--exact-version=VERSION] [--max-version=VERSION] [--list-all] [--debug]
[--print-errors] [--silence-errors] [--errors-to-stdout] [--usage]
Phil.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages pkg-config depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
pkg-config recommends no packages.
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