Re: [Boost-users] Finding the correct library to link (feature request for pkg-config support)

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-15 20:49:37

on Sat Jul 14 2007, Roger Leigh <rleigh-AT-whinlatter.ukfsn.org> wrote:

> It would be great if Boost would provide a mechanism to allow such
> discovery.  Such a mechanism already exists, and is called
> "pkg-config".  By installing a small file in LIBDIR/pkgconfig for each
> Boost library, the pkg-config tool or PKG_CHECK_MODULES Autoconf macro
> may be used to query this information.  

Please enter all of the material in your post into a ticket at
svn.boost.org It's important, and I don't want it to get lost.

Thanks,

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