Re: How do I make a "-config" script?

2006-05-27 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Christopher Sean Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, thanks. Just a fleeting thought, such scripts are becoming a > >more and more common convention and their entire purpose is to interface > >with autoconf-substituted variables... maybe the time is coming where > >this should be standa

Re: How do I make a "-config" script?

2006-05-27 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: scripts that give you information like includes, libraries, etc... is there some autoconf/automake/other magic i can use to automatically generate one of these for my distribution? Nope. Such *-config scripts are ordinary, manually written applicatio

Re: How do I make a "-config" script?

2006-05-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > scripts that give you information like includes, libraries, etc... is there > > some autoconf/automake/other magic i can use to automatically generate one > > of these for my distribution? > Nope. Such *-config scripts are ordinary, manually written > a

Re: How do I make a "-config" script?

2006-05-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:49 -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > A lot of packages (libxml2, APR, gnome, etc) come with these "-config" > scripts that give you information like includes, libraries, etc... is there > some autoconf/automake/other magic i can use to automatically generate one > of these fo

How do I make a "-config" script?

2006-05-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
A lot of packages (libxml2, APR, gnome, etc) come with these "-config" scripts that give you information like includes, libraries, etc... is there some autoconf/automake/other magic i can use to automatically generate one of these for my distribution? Thanks, Tyler