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Re: Relation between libtool and pkg-config
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Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: |
Re: Relation between libtool and pkg-config |
Date: |
Wed, 2 May 2007 09:19:51 -0500 (CDT) |
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Richard Lemieux wrote:
Can anyone point me to a document explaining the general architecture of
'libtool', where it stores information, and where it takes information from,
and how it interacts with 'pkg-config'?
Libtool does not interface with 'pkg-config' at all. Application
configure scripts (based on Autoconf) may execute 'pkg-config' to
obtain package configuration information. This configuration
information is saved in the generated makefiles and configuration
headers. Ultimately, some of this information is used by the
compile/link/install steps, which libtool plays a role in. This is
why you won't find mention of 'pkg-config' in the
autoconf/automake/libtool documentation.
As far as where libtool stores information, it stores information in
"library.la" files in order to include additional linkage information
necessary to use the library properly.
Bob
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