avifile(1)

💖 avifile(1) — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the man page for avifile-config, living in manual section 1, and it's sitting at version 0.7 rn. it's giving "tiny script, big job" energy and honestly? we're obsessed. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

avifile-config — the little script that spills the tea about which version of avifile you've got installed on your system. 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

avifile-config [--prefix[=DIR]] [--exec-prefix[=DIR]] [--version]
               [--libs] [--cflags]

like, you just call it with whatever flags you need and it talks back. simple as that. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so avifile-config is the tool you use to figure out which compiler flags and which linker flags you should be feeding to your build so that your program can actually compile and link against avifile. no cap. it's literally the matchmaker between your code and avifile. 😭

it also gets used internally by the .m4 macros for GNU autoconf that ship inside avifile. so yeah, it's pulling double duty and doing it flawlessly. main character energy fr fr. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --version — prints out the version of avifile that's currently installed, straight to standard output. like, "hi, this is who i am." ✨
• --libs — prints the linker flags you need in order to link an avifile program. these are the flags that make the link step go through, bestie.
• --cflags — prints the compiler flags you need in order to compile an avifile program. feed these to your compiler and it'll know where everything lives. 🎀
• --prefix=PREFIX — if you pass this, then instead of using the installation prefix that avifile was originally built with, it uses PREFIX when it computes the output for the --cflags and --libs options. also, this one doubles as the exec prefix too if you didn't pass --exec-prefix. ⚠️ and listen: this option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options. order matters, okay? don't play with it. 🙈
• --exec-prefix=PREFIX — same idea, but for the installation exec prefix. pass this and it'll use PREFIX instead of the exec prefix avifile was built with when computing the output for --cflags and --libs. ⚠️ and again: this option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options. yes, same rule. no, we're not joking. 💀
• --data-dir — prints the data dir that's used for the avifile program. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🍓

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• aviplay(1)

go read that one next, it's the sibling. 💜

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 1998 Zdenek Kabelac

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.

that's the whole license, verbatim, no edits, because we respect the paperwork in this house. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was the man page for avifile, version 0.7, dated 12 February 2003. iconic, timeless, ate. now go compile something cute. 💖✨🎀🦋