KAKASI(1)

💖 KAKASI(1) — the kakasi-config glow-up 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're doing the General Commands Manual thing for kakasi-config and honestly? she's a tiny little helper script with main character energy. let's get into it. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

kakasi-config — a script to get information about the installed version of KAKASI 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

kakasi-config [--prefix[=DIR]] [--exec-prefix[=DIR]] [--help]
[--version] [--libs] [--cflags]

like, that's it. that's the whole girl. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so kakasi-config is a tool you use to configure stuff — specifically it figures out the compiler and linker flags you should be using to compile and link programs that use KAKASI. 🌸

she's also used internally by the .m4 macros for GNU autoconf that ship with KAKASI, so she's lowkey the backbone of the whole build situation. no cap. 🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

kakasi-config accepts the following options, and yes we're doing all of them, every single one, because we don't skip. ✨

• --help — prints the help text and then dips. that's it, that's the whole job. 👑
• --version — prints the currently installed version of KAKASI on the standard output. so you can flex which version you're running. 💜
• --libs — prints the linker flags that are necessary to link a KAKASI program. 🔗
• --cflags — prints the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a KAKASI program. 🛠️
• --prefix=PREFIX — if you specify this, use PREFIX instead of the installation prefix that KAKASI was built with when computing the output for the --cflags and --libs options. this option is also used for the exec prefix if --exec-prefix was not specified. ⚠️ and listen: this option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options. order matters, bestie, don't play yourself. 🙈
• --exec-prefix=PREFIX — if you specify this, use PREFIX instead of the installation exec prefix that GTK+ was built with when computing the output for the --cflags and --libs options. 🫶 (and yes, the original literally says GTK+ right there in the KAKASI manpage — i'm not inventing that, i'm just the messenger, and i'm keeping every word exactly as written.) also: this option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options. same rule, same drama. ⚠️

fr fr, if you put --libs or --cflags before your --prefix / --exec-prefix, that's on you. the order is the order. 💀

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• kakasi(1),

(yes, there's a trailing comma in the source. we keep it. it's iconic. 😌)

✨ COPYRIGHT ✨

Copyright © 2001 Kakasi Project 🌈

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. ✨

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this one's from 28 January 2001 and it's part of the KAKASI(1) manual — go forth and configure your build like the main character you are. 💖🦋💅