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: 2005-01-01 17:06:42

On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 09:46:22PM +0100, Andreas Pokorny wrote:

 > >  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.
 > Thats not enough, the return values of pkg-config must be dependant
 > on the toolset setting, and a few flags like debug, multithreaded.. 

 If you require something like that, then several boost.pc files is the
 correct solution.  You just need to have a sane way of finding out
 which targets are available.  And you can use pkg-config
 --variable=name for that.

 In fewer words, make:

 $ pkg-config --foo boost-signals

 do something useful.

 Need to note that --define-variable is also available, and the output
 of e.g. --libs is interpolated.

 Marcelo