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authorDan Nicholson <dbn.lists@gmail.com>2012-12-11 10:04:21 -0800
committerDan Nicholson <dbn.lists@gmail.com>2012-12-11 11:59:40 -0800
commitec11c93ef843c30d93d182ca940b78a052d0560c (patch)
treeeae399138c9b0c98b40d5f444c6d7181d0415bff /pkg-config.1
parentd1b7dd42d19c688bbb743cd83ccf2c518b75614c (diff)
downloadpkg-config-ec11c93ef843c30d93d182ca940b78a052d0560c.tar.gz
Explicitly set --exists as the default option
This happened basically by accident before when "pkg-config foo" was run because the code wouldn't find any options set and just fall through to the end after processing the package arguments. However, it would act differently in that Requires.private was only enabled with an explicit --exists.
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diff --git a/pkg-config.1 b/pkg-config.1
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@@ -193,7 +193,8 @@ constraint after each package name, for example:
.nf
$ pkg-config --exists 'glib-2.0 >= 1.3.4 libxml = 1.8.3'
.fi
-Remember to use \-\-print-errors if you want error messages.
+Remember to use \-\-print-errors if you want error messages. When no
+output options are supplied to \fIpkg-config\fP, \-\-exists is implied.
.TP
.I "--msvc-syntax"
This option is available only on Windows. It causes \fIpkg-config\fP