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-<!--
-
- Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 The SCons Foundation
-
- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
- a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
- "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
- without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
- distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
- permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
- the following conditions:
-
- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
- in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
- KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
- WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
- NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
- LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
- OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
- WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
-
--->
-
- <para>
-
- Configuring the right options to build programs to work with
- libraries--especially shared libraries--that are available
- on POSIX systems can be very complicated.
- To help this situation,
- various utilies with names that end in <filename>config</filename>
- return the command-line options for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
- that are needed to use these libraries;
- for example, the command-line options
- to use a library named <filename>lib</filename>
- would be found by calling a utility named <filename>lib-config</filename>.
-
- </para>
-
- <para>
-
- A more recent convention is that these options
- are available from the generic <filename>pkg-config</filename> program,
- which has common framework, error handling, and the like,
- so that all the package creator has to do is provide the set of strings
- for his particular package.
-
- </para>
-
- <para>
-
- &SCons; construction environments have a &ParseConfig; method
- that executes a <filename>*config</filename> utility
- (either <filename>pkg-config</filename> or a
- more specific utility)
- and configures the appropriate construction variables
- in the environment
- based on the command-line options
- returned by the specified command.
-
- </para>
-
- <scons_example name="ParseConfig1">
- <file name="SConstruct" printme="1">
- env = Environment()
- env['CPPPATH'] = ['/lib/compat']
- env.ParseConfig("pkg-config x11 --cflags --libs")
- print env['CPPPATH']
- </file>
- </scons_example>
-
- <para>
-
- &SCons; will execute the specified command string,
- parse the resultant flags,
- and add the flags to the appropriate environment variables.
-
- </para>
-
- <!--
- This is how we used to generate the screen output below, but
- as of (at least) Ubuntu Karmic, the pkg-config output for x11
- no longer reports back an include directory. Since this is just
- for example anyway, we're just hard-coding the output.
-
- <scons_output example="ParseConfig1">
- <scons_output_command>scons -Q</scons_output_command>
- </scons_output>
- -->
-
- <screen>
- % <userinput>scons -Q</userinput>
- ['/lib/compat', '/usr/X11/include']
- scons: `.' is up to date.
- </screen>
-
- <para>
-
- In the example above, &SCons; has added the include directory to
- <varname>CPPPATH</varname>.
- (Depending upon what other flags are emitted by the
- <filename>pkg-config</filename> command,
- other variables may have been extended as well.)
-
- </para>
-
- <para>
-
- Note that the options are merged with existing options using
- the &MergeFlags; method,
- so that each option only occurs once in the construction variable:
-
- </para>
-
- <scons_example name="ParseConfig2">
- <file name="SConstruct" printme="1">
- env = Environment()
- env.ParseConfig("pkg-config x11 --cflags --libs")
- env.ParseConfig("pkg-config x11 --cflags --libs")
- print env['CPPPATH']
- </file>
- </scons_example>
-
- <!--
- This is how we used to generate the screen output below, but
- as of (at least) Ubuntu Karmic, the pkg-config output for x11
- no longer reports back an include directory. Since this is just
- for example anyway, we're just hard-coding the output.
-
- <scons_output example="ParseConfig2">
- <scons_output_command>scons -Q</scons_output_command>
- </scons_output>
- -->
-
- <screen>
- % <userinput>scons -Q</userinput>
- ['/usr/X11/include']
- scons: `.' is up to date.
- </screen>