Re: [boost] Re: feature wish for boost 1.32.1 or 1.33.0: pkg-config support

From: Marcelo E. Magallon (mmagallo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-26 22:27:04

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:19:36AM +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote:

 > I though that emits the flags that /should/be/ used to compile
 > against Boost, not the flags the /were/ used to compile Boost itself.

 You can store arbitrary variables in .pc files and retrieve them using
 pkg-config --variable=name.  The only trick here is to define the name
 of the package or packages and make that consistent across all systems.
 It's no use to have boost-redhat.pc and boost-darwin.pc because that's
 precisely the point of pkg-config.  boost.pc and boost-signals.pc and
 boost-regex.pc are all fine.

 Marcelo