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| author | Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> | 2011-04-13 21:03:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> | 2011-04-13 21:03:15 +0200 |
| commit | ad10a808144abb4925cd16e80a694c56b4061d7f (patch) | |
| tree | 5573cf33312fdc2b1fc3fe555a94f7ed623d4183 | |
| parent | 2ec2007d8d23748cdf72eba8503940615722848e (diff) | |
Mention that auto* recommends building .pc files at build time
Fixes Freedesktop #32094
| -rw-r--r-- | pkg-config.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pkg-config.1 b/pkg-config.1 index df4992c..f693fe4 100644 --- a/pkg-config.1 +++ b/pkg-config.1 @@ -366,8 +366,11 @@ Libs.private: -lm Cflags: -I${includedir}/glib-2.0 -I${libdir}/glib/include .fi .PP -You would normally generate the file using configure, of course, so -that the prefix, etc. are set to the proper values. +You would normally generate the file using configure, so that the +prefix, etc. are set to the proper values. The GNU Autoconf manual +recommends generating files like .pc files at build time rather than +configure time, so when you build the .pc file is a matter of taste +and preference. .PP Files have two kinds of line: keyword lines start with a keyword plus a colon, and variable definitions start with an alphanumeric string |