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Mention that auto* recommends building .pc files at build time

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Fixes Freedesktop #32094
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Tollef Fog Heen 2011-04-13 21:03:15 +02:00
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@ -366,8 +366,11 @@ Libs.private: -lm
Cflags: -I${includedir}/glib-2.0 -I${libdir}/glib/include
.fi
.PP
You would normally generate the file using configure, of course, so
that the prefix, etc. are set to the proper values.
You would normally generate the file using configure, so that the
prefix, etc. are set to the proper values. The GNU Autoconf manual
recommends generating files like .pc files at build time rather than
configure time, so when you build the .pc file is a matter of taste
and preference.
.PP
Files have two kinds of line: keyword lines start with a keyword plus
a colon, and variable definitions start with an alphanumeric string