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Currently this only works with GCC-supplied C<ld> and GNU C<ld>.
=head2 INSTALL
The C<Makefile.PL> that comes with C<PkgConfig> can take one or more C<--script>
options to change of the name of the script or scripts that are installed.
=over 4
=item --script ppkg-config
This is the default and works on all platforms
=item --script pkg-config.pl
This is installed by default on all platforms except for Windows, where the .pl
may confuse the shell and cause the script to be opened in a text editor.
=item --script pkg-config
This is the default name of the real C<pkg-config> and so you have to specifically
enable it if you want it.
=item --script none
Don't install any scripts.
=back
Example, install all script names:
% perl Makefile.PL --script ppkg-config --script pkg-config.pl --script pkg-config
Example, don't install any scripts:
% perl Makefile.PL --script none
You can also set the environment variable PERL_PKG_CONFIG_SCRIPTS to the
desired --script value (separating each script name with a comma C<,>) to
ensure that upgrades of PkgConfig do the same.
=head2 CAVEATS
On Strawberry Perl C<ppkg-config> acts like Strawberry is the system.
This means that
=over 4
=item
The .pc files that are bundled with Strawberry are searched by default.
=item
The Strawberry include and lib directories are used to compute the
exclusion lists.
=back
As of Strawberry 5.20.0.1 PkgConfig is bundled with Strawberry and
C<pkg-config> is installed by default (in addition to C<ppkg-config>,
though the C<ppkg-config> alias is NOT bundled with Strawberry itself).
For details on how to patch the .pc files bundled with older Strawberries,
see the C<README.win32> that comes with this Distribution.
=head2 BUGS
The order of the flags is not exactly matching to that of C<pkg-config>. From my
own observation, it seems this module does a better job, but I might be wrong.
Unlike C<pkg-config>, the scripts C<--exists> function will return nonzero if
a package B<or> any of its dependencies are missing. This differs from the
behavior of C<pkg-config> which will just check for the definition of the
package itself (without dependencies).
=head1 SEE ALSO
=over 4
=item L<pkg-config|http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config>
The original C implementation
=item L<pkgconf|https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf>
An alternative C implementation
=item L<PkgConfig::LibPkgConf>
Perl bindings for C<libpkgconf>, the same library that C<pkgconf> is built on.
=item L<ExtUtils::PkgConfig>
A wrapper around the C<pkg-config> binary that can be used in your C<Makefile.PL>
or C<Build.PL>.
=item L<http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/pkg-config/>