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.
Ah....pkg-config is, AIUI, designed to replace the million and one 'libX-config' programs you currently have installed. It gives you a simple way to find out what compiler options and header files were used to buid a particular library. GTK2 uses this, and seems to have become the new standard... > I was hoping to get some insight into this tool, and how well integrated it > is into "the Debian way" of doing things. For packages that support it, the requisite information will be in the libbleh-dev package. I'm not sure if there's any formal plan to convert packages over to it or not, but it does seem like a better way to handle it... -rob
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