From c2e028adcf52fe258c913e576860a42655add907 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Pitcock Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 12:04:38 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] README: mention libpkgconf (no-ci) --- README.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1c8ca60..324c61c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ # pkgconf [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/pkgconf/pkgconf.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/pkgconf/pkgconf) -pkgconf provides compiler and linker configuration for development frameworks. +pkgconf is a tool and framework (`libpkgconf`) which provides compiler and linker configuration for +development frameworks. ## general summary @@ -17,6 +18,9 @@ docs for [legacy pkg-config][pcdocs] useful. [pcdocs]: http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html +`libpkgconf` is a library which allows other tools, such as compilers and IDEs, to +discover and use frameworks configured by pkgconf. + ## usage Implementations of pkg-config, such as pkgconf, are typically used with the @@ -30,7 +34,7 @@ environment variable, so that you can test pkgconf without overwriting your pkg-config binary. Some other build systems may also respect the PKG_CONFIG environment variable. -To set the enviornment variable on the bourne shell and clones (i.e. bash), you +To set the environment variable on the bourne shell and clones (i.e. bash), you can run: $ export PKG_CONFIG=/usr/bin/pkgconf