pmkpc [options] [modules]

is a tool that gathers metainformation about installed libraries that provide pkg-config data files. It aims to be an alternative to the pkg-config tool.

The options are as follows:

--version

Display compatibility version relative to pkgconfig.

--atleast-pkgconfig-version

Check if compatibility version is at least equal or greater than the version provided as an argument.

--modversion

Display the version of the given library modules using one line for each version.

--atleast-version

Check if each module version is at least equal or greater than the version provided as an argument.

--exact-version

Check if each module version is equal to the version provided as an argument.

--max-version

Check if each module version is at least equal or smaller than the version provided as an argument.

--exists

Check if given library modules exists.

--cflags

Display pre-processor and compiler flags for given library modules. Duplicates values are automatically removed.

--cflags-only-I

Enable output filtering of compiler flags and keep include path. See output filtering section.

--cflags-only-other

Enable output filtering of compiler flags and keep other flags than include path. See output filtering section.

--libs

Display linker flags for given library modules. Duplicate values are automatically removed.

--libs_only_l

Enable output filtering of linker flags and keep library linking flags. See output filtering section.

--libs_only_L

Enable output filtering of linker flags and keep library path flags. See output filtering section.

--libs_only_other

Enable output filtering of linker flags and keep other flags than library linking and path flags. See output filtering section.

--help

Only for compatibility with pkg-config. Refers to this man page.

--usage

Display usage.

--list-all

Display all module names and descriptions.

The following options have not been implemented yet: --uninstalled --debug --variable --define-variable --print-errors --silence-errors --errors-to-stdout

As pkg-config has no standard specifications we determinated its behavior from pkg-config man page. The result is that filtering options can be accumulated. The default behavior is like if all filtering options were enabled.

pmkcfgtool.dat

config tool specific data.

Initialy pmk was using pkg-config in a sub shell. Further, internal support was developed to improve the speed of data gathering. While studying the code of pkg-config we discovered some chunks of code that were unsafe (malloc return unchecked, use of strcpy without any check, ...). Knowing that, we decided to try to do a safer implementation and pmkpc was born.