---
name: "confuse-config"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libconfuse-dev"
version: "2.5-2"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/confuse-config"
---

# confuse-config(1)

script to get information about the installed version of confuse

## NAME

confuse-config - script to get information about the installed version of confuse

## SYNOPSIS

**confuse-config \[--version\] \[--libs\] \[--cflags\] \[LIBRARIES\]**

## DESCRIPTION

*confuse-config* is a tool that is used to configure to determine the compiler and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use *confuse*.

Please note that this tool is deprecated in favour of pkg-config. This tool could  disappear in the next versions.

## OPTIONS

*confuse-config* accepts the following options:

- **LIBRARIES**

  This argument is currently ignored as confuse as only one library.

- **--version**

  Print the currently installed version of *confuse* on the standard output.

- **--libs**

  Print the linker flags that are necessary to link a *confuse* program.

- **--cflags**

  Print the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a *confuse* program.

## AUTHORS

**confuse** was written by Martin Hedenfalk \<mhe@home.se\>.