NAME
pmkpc - Packages metainformation management tool.
SYNOPSIS
pmkpc [options] [modules]
DESCRIPTION
pmkpc is a tool that gathers metainformation about installed libraries
that provide pkg-config data files. It aims to be an alternative to the
pkg-config tool.
OPTIONS
The options are as follows:
--version
Display compatibility version relative to pkgconfig.
--atleast-pkgconfig-version
Check if compatibility version is at least equal or greater than
the version provided as an argument.
--modversion
Display the version of the given library modules using one line
for each version.
--atleast-version
Check if each module version is at least equal or greater than
the version provided as an argument.
--exact-version
Check if each module version is equal to the version provided as
an argument.
--max-version
Check if each module version is at least equal or smaller than
the version provided as an argument.
--exists
Check if given library modules exists.
--cflags
Display pre-processor and compiler flags for given library
modules. Duplicates values are automatically removed.
--cflags-only-I
Enable output filtering of compiler flags and keep include path.
See output filtering section.
--cflags-only-other
Enable output filtering of compiler flags and keep other flags
than include path. See output filtering section.
--libs Display linker flags for given library modules. Duplicate values
are automatically removed.
--libs_only_l
Enable output filtering of linker flags and keep library linking
flags. See output filtering section.
--libs_only_L
Enable output filtering of linker flags and keep library path
flags. See output filtering section.
--libs_only_other
Enable output filtering of linker flags and keep other flags than
library linking and path flags. See output filtering section.
--help Only for compatibility with pkg-config. Refers to this man page.
--usage
Display usage.
--list-all
Display all module names and descriptions.
The following options have not been implemented yet:
--uninstalled
--debug
--variable
--define-variable
--print-errors
--silence-errors
--errors-to-stdout
OUTPUT FILTERING
As pkg-config has no standard specifications we determinated its behavior
from pkg-config man page. The result is that filtering options can be
accumulated. The default behavior is like if all filtering options were
enabled.
FILES
pmkcfgtool.dat config tool specific data.
SEE ALSO
pkg-config(1)
HISTORY
Initialy pmk was using pkg-config in a sub shell. Further, internal
support was developed to improve the speed of data gathering. While
studying the code of pkg-config we discovered some chunks of code that
were unsafe (malloc return unchecked, use of strcpy without any check,
...). Knowing that, we decided to try to do a safer implementation and
pmkpc was born.
AUTHORS
Damien Couderc and Xavier Santolaria.