NAME

     pmkpc — Packages metainformation management tool.

SYNOPSIS

     pmkpc [options] [modules]

DESCRIPTION

     pmkpc 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.

OPTIONS

     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

OUTPUT FILTERING

     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.

FILES

     pmkcfgtool.dat  config tool specific data.

SEE ALSO

     pkg-config(1)

HISTORY

     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.

AUTHORS

     Damien Couderc and Xavier Santolaria.