On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:49 -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > A lot of packages (libxml2, APR, gnome, etc) come with these "-config" > scripts that give you information like includes, libraries, etc... is there > some autoconf/automake/other magic i can use to automatically generate one > of these for my distribution? Nope. Such *-config scripts are ordinary, manually written applications.
How to write them and how to interface them with the auto*tools is subject to a package's author. Ralf