pkg-config --libs --cflags not return anything for libgoogle-perftools-dev

Question

pkg-config --clibs --flags <package> is good enough to provide linker and include information.

I tried to find out such information about libgoogle-perftools-dev I installed from software center in Ubuntu 12.04.

$ pkg-config --libs --cflags libgoogle-perftools-dev
Package libgoogle-perftools-dev was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgoogle-perftools-dev.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libgoogle-perftools-dev' found

Not found for libgoogle-perftools, libgoogle, or perftools either.

So I wonder how to find the correct name of libgoogle-perftools-dev so that pkg-config --libs --cflags can return something? Thanks.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 15 '14 at 12:42

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I checked the libgoogle-perftools-dev list of files and is right. That package doesn't include any pkg-config file to list the headers and libraries of the packages.

You can fill a bug report if you feel this isn't correct.

answered May 15 '14 at 12:42

Braiam

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what files should the package include so that pkg-config can find it? – Tim May 15 '14 at 12:44
@Tim pkg-config ones, the man has an example to make one yourself. – Braiam May 15 '14 at 12:49
what do "pkg-config ones" look like? – Tim May 15 '14 at 12:52
@Tim in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ there are some. The man page also includes one. – Braiam May 15 '14 at 12:57
.pc files? /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ only has very few pc files. What other files did you look for in https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/amd64/libgoogle-perftools-dev/filelist? – Tim May 15 '14 at 12:59

pkg-config --libs --cflags not return anything for libgoogle-perftools-dev

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