Manual page is missing the m4 macros #147

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ariadne · 2017-10-13T16:12:34Z

ebassi commented

2017-10-13 16:12:34 +00:00

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Since pkgconf replaces the pkg-config.1 man page (at least, it does on Fedora 26), it would be nice if the manual page for pkgconf kept the bits about the Autconf m4 macros for integrating pkg-config into an Autotools project.

I know that we kind of dislike Autotools, but the macros section of the pkg-config manual page was the only way to check for the available macros and their syntax.

Since pkgconf replaces the `pkg-config.1` man page (at least, it does on Fedora 26), it would be nice if the manual page for pkgconf kept the bits about the Autconf m4 macros for integrating pkg-config into an Autotools project. I know that we kind of dislike Autotools, but the macros section of the pkg-config manual page was the only way to check for the available macros and their syntax.

ariadne commented

2017-10-14 03:00:44 +00:00

The person who contributed the manpage didn't look at the pkg-config one, so we weren't aware that the autoconf m4 macros are mentioned. Would you happen to have some example text to provide guidance for those users?

ebassi commented

2017-10-14 15:07:35 +00:00

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The current pkg-config.1 man page has a whole section on the available macros here.

Since pkgconf ships with a pkg.m4, it should probably take a similar approach, and list each available macro, alongside the documentation blurb from the m4 file.

The current `pkg-config.1` man page has a whole section on the available macros [here](https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pkg-config/tree/pkg-config.1#n440). Since pkgconf ships with a `pkg.m4`, it should probably take a similar approach, and list each available macro, alongside the documentation blurb from the m4 file.

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