FreedesktopPkgConfig

Freedesktop.org pkg-config

Description

pkg-config is a helper tool used when compiling applications and libraries. It helps you insert the correct compiler options on the command line so an application can use gcc -o test test.cpkg-config --libs --cflags glib-2.0 for instance, rather than hard-coding values on where to find glib (or other libraries). It is language-agnostic, so it can be used for defining the location of documentation tools, for instance.

On VMS, we modify the .pc files supplied with packages to not include the --libs information as we use project specific gnv$*.opt files instead for the linker to find the proper shared image or object library.

Project Homepage

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/

License

GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version (at your option)

Known VMS Ports and status

Pkg-config 0.21 for Alpha/VMS 8.2.

Feature	Status
GNV Build Procedure	Yes
DCL Build Procedure	No
MMS build Script	No
MMS Required	N/A
MMK Required on ODS-5	N/A
VMS Help file	No
Shared Image	N/A
Exact case universal symbols	N/A
VMS Compatible Exit status	Yes
UNIX Compatible Exit status	Yes
PCSI Installation package	Yes
VMSINSTAL Installation package	** No **
ODS-5 Required	** Yes **
VMS CDU Support	** No **

Issues blocking a VMS port

pkg-config 0.28 has not successfully been built on VMS yet. The attempts so far have exposed bugs in the GNV 3.0.1 package including the sed utility.

Packages that depend on this package for building

Samba V4 built via GNV.
LibreOffice 4.x (sourceforge.net)
Many other packages.

Packages needed to build and run

GNV Bash 4.2.45 or later.
GNV 2.1.3

Optional packages that can be used.

Unknown.

[John Malmberg]

pkg-config port discussion thread