[dundee] pkg-config

[James Le Cuirot]

.pc files contain information about how to build against a certain
library. They are created when the library is built. On a source distro
such as Gentoo, they are installed with the library. On a binary distro
such as Ubuntu, they are usually only included in the library's -dev
package. You should have the -dev package installed for each library you
need to build against anyway because the header files will also be
required.

James


----- Original message -----
From: "Nistur" <nistur at googlemail.com>
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:20:03 +0000
Subject: [dundee] pkg-config

I have so far been simply making the .pc files and copying across the 
contents from my own PC. I've looked everywhere online to no avail, is 
there any way to automatically create the files? Or as is more likely 
the case due to the nature of them... is there a package containing 
important ones?