On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Harlan Stenn <st...@ntp.org> wrote: > A number of different packages will install foo-config in the PATH to > make it easy to figure out if the package installed and what options > should be used. > > Examples include: > > autoopts-config > cups-config > curl-config > libgcrypt-config > libpng-config > > Anyway, I was wondering if libevent could install something similar. > > I'm looking for path information (include and library) and any needed > CPP, library, etc. flags. >
libevent provides pkg-config files that should do the same as these helper programs. You can run shell program 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/foo/libevent/lib/pkgconfig/ pkg-config' to get the information you desire on stdout. pkg-config also has nice Autoconf macros.
