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