pdal-config(1)

📦 version 2.3.0, in ubuntu jammy

💖 pdal-config — the little oracle that tells you how PDAL was built 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to pdal-config</s> — it's a section 1 manual page, aka a lil command-line bestie, and its whole personality is answering the question "hey, how exactly was the PDAL library built on this machine?" 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

pdal-config — query PDAL build options 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pdal-config [--cflags] [--cxxflags] [--defines] [--includes] [--libs]
            [--plugin-dir] [--version]

like. that's the whole vibe. you call it, you pass it a flag, it tells you a thing. slay. ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

pdal-config lets you query the options that were used to build the PDAL library. that's it, that's the job, and it does it iconically. 🫶

ngl it's giving "quiet support character who knows everything." you want to know what compiler flags went into your PDAL build? boom. what includes? boom. where the plugins live? boom. main character energy for a utility that is literally just answering questions. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

one bullet per flag, no skips, no shortcuts, we keep every single one:

  • --cflags — the compiler flags 🎀
  • --cxxlibs — the C++ compiler flags 🦋
  • --defines — the compiler defines ✨
  • --includes — the compiler includes 🌸
  • --libs — the libraries 🔥
  • --plugin-dir — the plugin directory 💜
  • --version — the library version ⭐
okay so heads up bestie: up in the SYNOPSIS it's written as --cxxflags, and down here in OPTIONS it's written as --cxxlibs. not me pointing it out, just saying — we reproduce it exactly as the page says it, both times, no editorialising, no cap. 🙈

and that's the whole page, fr fr. no warnings, no exit statuses, no environment variables hiding in the margins — just seven flags and a dream. 💖

the cute sign-off: this lil masterpiece is dated 07 March 2022, and it comes to you as pdal-config(1) from the PDAL source. mwah. go query something. 🎀✨🦋💅

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