On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:44:05PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:00:07AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:07:21PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > In any case, I manged to get autogen.sh to run, only to have configure fail > > > looking for a file called sndfile.pc. It seems to be searching for this > > > with /usr/bin/pkg-config. > > > > You should be able to find the answer to all such questions using > > http://packages.debian.org/, trying various values for the Distribution > > field. > > Actually, if I understand what's going on here. The configure script is > trying to use something called /usr/bin/pkg-config to search for installed > packages. > > I was hoping to get some insight into this tool, and how well integrated it > is into "the Debian way" of doing things.
It's not really related to any semi-mythical "Debian way". :) pkg-config isn't looking for installed packages: it's looking for compile and link flags to pass to the compiler in order to build with certain libraries. It's an approach taken by many *-config tools over the years, and pkg-config is an attempt to make it generic. As far as integration goes, it's just an ordinary package like many other, although I believe it's used by a good deal of GNOME 2. There's more information in its man page. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
