---
name: "pmkpc"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pmk"
version: "0.10.4-1"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pmkpc"
---

# pmkpc(1)

Packages metainformation management tool.

## NAME

**pmkpc** – Packages metainformation management tool.

## SYNOPSIS

**pmkpc** \[*options*\] \[*modules*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**pmkpc** is a tool that gathers metainformation about installed libraries that provide pkg-config data files. It aims to be an alternative to the pkg-config tool.

## OPTIONS

The options are as follows:

- \--version

  Display compatibility version relative to pkgconfig.

- \--atleast-pkgconfig-version

  Check if compatibility version is at least equal or greater than the version provided as an argument.

- \--modversion

  Display the version of the given library modules using one line for each version.

- \--atleast-version

  Check if each module version is at least equal or greater than the version provided as an argument.

- \--exact-version

  Check if each module version is equal to the version provided as an argument.

- \--max-version

  Check if each module version is at least equal or smaller than the version provided as an argument.

- \--exists

  Check if given library modules exists.

- \--cflags

  Display pre-processor and compiler flags for given library modules. Duplicates values are automatically removed.

- \--cflags-only-I

  Enable output filtering of compiler flags and keep include path. See output filtering section.

- \--cflags-only-other

  Enable output filtering of compiler flags and keep other flags than include path. See output filtering section.

- \--libs

  Display linker flags for given library modules. Duplicate values are automatically removed.

- \--libs\_only\_l

  Enable output filtering of linker flags and keep library linking flags. See output filtering section.

- \--libs\_only\_L

  Enable output filtering of linker flags and keep library path flags. See output filtering section.

- \--libs\_only\_other

  Enable output filtering of linker flags and keep other flags than library linking and path flags. See output filtering section.

- \--help

  Only for compatibility with pkg-config. Refers to this man page.

- \--usage

  Display usage.

- \--list-all

  Display all module names and descriptions.

The following options have not been implemented yet:

```
--uninstalled
--debug
--variable
--define-variable
--print-errors
--silence-errors
--errors-to-stdout
```

## OUTPUT FILTERING

As pkg-config has no standard specifications we determinated its behavior from pkg-config man page. The result is that filtering options can be accumulated. The default behavior is like if all filtering options were enabled.

## FILES

- *pmkcfgtool.dat*

  config tool specific data.

## SEE ALSO

[pkg-config(1)](/pkg-config/1.md)

## HISTORY

Initialy pmk was using pkg-config in a sub shell. Further, internal support was developed to improve the speed of data gathering. While studying the code of pkg-config we discovered some chunks of code that were unsafe (malloc return unchecked, use of strcpy without any check, ...). Knowing that, we decided to try to do a safer implementation and pmkpc was born.

## AUTHORS

Damien Couderc and Xavier Santolaria.