Re: where does version numberin xx.pc get set ?

[Rod Butcher <rbutcher hyenainternet com>]

Thank you Jean and Murray, those references should sort me out.
Final question for now - is there a problem with backwards-compatibility 
with the gnu c compilers ? I seem to get odd problems with e.g. 3.4.3 
that I didn't get with 3.3.6, usually fixable with minor code changes, 
and even wose results with 4 beta.. are the later compilers stricter 
than previously, preventing dubious code compiling ? Shouldn't there be 
a backward-emulation option e.g. to allow say gcc 4 to accept code that 
3.3 accepted ? I read build instructions (e.g. for a combat flight 
simulator) that say compiler 3.3 will work OK but later versions won't.. 
to me this seems just plan wrong. Do you developers keep a selection of 
compilers handy ? Or am I missing something here ?
thanks
Rod
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Jean Br�rt wrote:
> Le vendredi 29 avril 2005 �6:43 +1000, Rod Butcher a �it :
>
> > Can somebody tell me where I set the version number so it will appear in 
> > the xxx.pc file ? I've looked at gal.pc.in file and it specifies 
> > Version: @VERSION@ - that becomes 2.5.0 in  gal.pc - how does it get there ?
>
>
> configure does that (look at configure.in).
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> > Better still, could somebody point me to some doco on how this xxx.pc 
> > stuff works ?
>
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> man pkg-config
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> .