Ubuntu

Binary package “pkg-config” in ubuntu xenial

  1. Xenial (16.04)
  2. pkg-config

manage compile and link flags for libraries

 pkg-config is a system for managing library compile and link flags that
 works with automake and autoconf.
 .
 Increasingly libraries ship with ".pc" files that allow querying of the
 compiler and linker flags needed to use them through the pkg-config(1)
 program.

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