Alt::ExtUtils::PkgConfig::PLICEASE - Simplistic interface to pkgconf (like pkg-config)
version 1.15
env PERL_ALT_INSTALL=OVERWRITE cpanm Alt::ExtUtils::PkgConfig::PLICEASE
This distribution provides an alternative implementation of ExtUtils::PkgConfig which uses PkgConfig::LibPkgConf (itself using libpkgconf which is the C library interface to pkgconf) instead of pkg-config. It is unlikely to replace the original module, but is intended to gather reliability statistics for PkgConfig::LibPkgConf as compared with the original version and pkg-config.
That being said, all effort has been made to make this module correct, and if you are in an environment where you have libpkgconf but not pkg-config, then this module may be of use to you. In order to get it to install you MUST set the environment variable PERL_ALT_INSTALL to OVERWRITE. For further rationale and details on this and other "Alternative" implementation modules see Alt.
Here are some differences between my version and the original:
Because this implementation uses a library instead of a program to query the .pc file database, this version does not need to use fork or system.
AUTOLOADThis version doesn't use AUTOLOAD. As a result, dashed versions of the methods (cflags-only-I) are not supported. You must use the underscore methods (cflags_only_I). As the dashed versions were probably unintentional that is probably okay.
Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>
This software is Copyright (c) 2016 by Graham Ollis.
This is free software, licensed under:
The GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1, February 1999