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Updated: pkg-config-0.20-1


The pkg-config program is used to retrieve information about installed libraries in the system, including the CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and other information necessary to compile and link against one or more libraries.

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Technically, this is a "new package", as the upstream maintainers have renamed "pkgconfig" to "pkg-config", presumably to avoid the confusion inherent in the fact that the executable was ALWAYS named "pkg-config", and the relevant environment variables all started with PKG_CONFIG_. So at least now the name of the package and the name of the executable match.


Of course, the default data storage location, /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ has NOT changed, so the new version will continue to work with the installed .pc files used by the old version.

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This upgrade should be relatively smooth, since I have simultaneously released an "updated" pkgconfig-0.17.2-3 which is empty, marked _obsolete, and requires: this new pkg-config package.


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Note that the new "private libs" and "private requires" features do not work as they would on *nix systems in this release, because this pkg-config was compiled with the --enable-indirect-deps option. This option is necessary to properly link dependent DLLs on MSWin/cygwin, but means that no library dependency is truly private. However, .pc files that use the .private options will work properly -- as defined on the MSWin/cygwin platform: private libs will be folded into the public libs list, and private requires will likewise be folded into the public requires list.


--
Chuck



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