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Submitted by: olgeni
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The pkg-config program is used to retrieve information about installed
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libraries in the system. It is typically used to compile and link against one
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or more libraries.
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pkg-config retrieves information about packages from special metadata files.
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These files are named after the package, with the extension .pc. By default,
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pkg-config looks in the following directories: ${PREFIX}/libdata/pkgconfig,
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${LOCALBASE}/libdata/pkgconfig and ${X11BASE}/libdata/pkgconfig for these
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files; it will also look in the list of directories specified by the
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PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.
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The package name specified on the pkg-config command line is defined to be the
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name of the metadata file, minus the .pc extension. If a library can install
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multiple versions simultaneously, it must give each version its own name (for
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example, GTK 1.2 might have the package name "gtk+" while GTK 2.0 has
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"gtk+-2.0").
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WWW: http://pkgconfig.sourceforge.net
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