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authorTollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>2011-05-15 10:34:01 +0200
committerTollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>2011-05-15 10:34:01 +0200
commit13636214674abf39a338532fd483674ff3a20bff (patch)
tree11f3129baa7f122ef6c04d6801f043a3da6f2aec
parent7850aeb03a54a15d07b6c243b61033cd379c39d7 (diff)
Document specifying paths to .pc files
Thanks to Binki for the patch Freedesktop #32622
-rw-r--r--pkg-config.14
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkg-config.1 b/pkg-config.1
index f693fe4..1d88908 100644
--- a/pkg-config.1
+++ b/pkg-config.1
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ defined to be the name of the metadata file, minus the \fI.pc\fP
extension. If a library can install multiple versions simultaneously,
it must give each version its own name (for example, GTK 1.2 might
have the package name "gtk+" while GTK 2.0 has "gtk+-2.0").
+.PP
+In addition to specifying a package name on the command line, the full
+path to a given \fI.pc\fP file may be given instead. This allows a
+user to directly query a particular \fI.pc\fP file.
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