NAME

Alien::Build::Plugin::PkgConfig::Negotiate - Package configuration negotiation plugin

VERSION

version 2.48

SYNOPSIS

 use alienfile;
 plugin 'PkgConfig' => (
   pkg_name => 'libfoo',
 );

DESCRIPTION

This plugin provides Probe and Gather steps for pkg-config based packages. It picks the best "PkgConfig" plugin depending your platform and environment.

PROPERTIES

pkg_name

The package name. If this is a list reference then .pc files with all those package names must be present. The first name will be the primary and used by default once installed. For the subsequent ".pc" files you can use the Alien::Base alt method to retrieve the alternate configurations once the Alien is installed.

atleast_version

The minimum required version that is acceptable version as provided by the system.

exact_version

The exact required version that is acceptable version as provided by the system.

max_version

The max required version that is acceptable version as provided by the system.

minimum_version

Alias for "atleast_version" for backward compatibility.

METHODS

pick

 my $name = Alien::Build::Plugin::PkgConfig::Negotiate->pick;

Returns the name of the negotiated plugin.

ENVIRONMENT

ALIEN_BUILD_PKG_CONFIG: If set, this plugin will be used instead of the build in logic which attempts to automatically pick the best plugin.

AUTHOR

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

Contributors:

Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)

Roy Storey (KIWIROY)

Ilya Pavlov

David Mertens (run4flat)

Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)

Christian Walde (Mithaldu)

Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)

Zaki Mughal (zmughal)

mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)

Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)

Flavio Poletti (polettix)

Salvador Fandiño (salva)

Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)

Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)

Kang-min Liu (劉康民, gugod)

Nicholas Shipp (nshp)

Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (JJ)

Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Petr Písař (ppisar)

Lance Wicks (LANCEW)

Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)

José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)

Duke Leto (LETO)

Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)

Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)

Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)

Håkon Hægland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)

nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.