gadap-config(1)

💖 gadap-config — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so this is gadap-config from the General Commands Manual, section 1 (that's "user commands" for the uninitiated, iykyk). she's a little utility that tells you stuff about the GADAP library on your system. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

gadap-config — Return metainformation about installed libraries

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gadap-config [--help]  [--cc] [--cxx ] [--cflags] [--libs] [--prefix]
[--version]

(and yes, the --cxx in the synopsis really does have a lil space after it. character for character, bestie. we don't fix, we preserve 💅)

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so the gadap-config program is your girl for retrieving information about the GADAP library on the system. that's the whole job. that's the vibe.

but listen — on Debian it is deprecated in favour of using pkg-config gadap instead, because the latter can be used for multiple libraries. so like… she still works, but the girlies have moved on. use pkg-config gadap when you can 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

The following options are supported, and every single one of them matters:

• --version — Displays the version of pkg-config and terminates. 💀 (yes, it says pkg-config, not gadap-config. that's literally what it does. we are simply reporting the facts, no cap.)
• --help — Displays a help message and terminates. a lil hand-holding moment, we love that for you.
• --cflags — This prints the pre-processor and compile flags required to compile the packages on the command line, including the flags for all their dependencies. ⚠️ heads up though: gadap-config exits with a nonzero code if it can't find metadata for one or more of the packages on the command line. so check that exit status, bestie, she will tell you when something's missing.
• --libs — This option is identical to "--cflags", only it prints the link flags. same energy, different flags. ✨
• --cc — This option lists the C compiler that should be used for compatability. (spelled exactly like that in the original — "compatability" — and I am respectfully not touching it 🎀)
• -cxx — This option lists the C++ compiler that should be used for compatability. note: single dash in the source, so -cxx it is. fr fr.
• --prefix — This option prints the value of the prefix variable, giving the location at which the library was installed. 📍 where she lives!!

✨ AUTHOR ✨

gadap-config is copyright (c) 2003-2008 by the Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES).

This manual page was written by Alastair McKinstry, <mckinstry@debian.org>, 2013. thank you alastair, you ate 👑

and that's the whole page, babes!! 🎀 this one lives in the General Commands Manual, section 1, and it signs off as gadap-config(1) — that's the name at the top and the name at the bottom, a lil matching set, iconic. no version number, no date stamp beyond that, just a girl and her manual page. slay 💖✨🦋