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


From: Christopher Sean Morrison
Subject: Re: How do I make a "-config" script?
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 20:53:18 -0400

Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> 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
applications.

        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 standardized?

                - Tyler

Tyler,

It's pretty trivial to make one of the *-config scripts by hand, or even "automate" their generation by making them an autoconf template (presuming someone doesn't use DESTDIR or relocate after the fact). That said, I believe there have been a couple efforts to standardize on an interface for those scripts. The most notable one that immediately comes to mind is the pkg-config project.

http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pkgconfig/

Cheers!
Sean





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