Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Apr 21, 2001, Eric Lemings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 2.0 spawned a separate tool called pkg-config that allows all packages
> > to use one tool rather than several different scripts to query compile
> > flags, link flags, and other configuration data.
>
> What I don't understand is how pkg-config is going to find the
> configuration info of the various packages. I hope it's not going to
> require having them all installed in the same prefix.
Of course not, the whole point of the -config scripts was to avoid
that. Well, one important point anyhow.
There's a PKG_CONFIG_PATH that controls where pkg-config looks for the
data files. So now you don't actually have to do PATH, just
PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
Havoc
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