X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:11:00 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pkg-config-0.20-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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. +++++ 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. +++++ 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. +++++ 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 *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/