rasqal-config(1)

💖 rasqal-config — the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this little script is about to become your new fav thing. it's a General Commands Manual situation, and it's genuinely so useful, no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

rasqal-config — a script to get information about the installed version of the RDF query library

like... it literally tells you stuff about your installed Rasqal. that's the whole job. and it ate. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rasqal-config [--prefix[=DIR]] [--libs] [--libtool-libs] [--cflags]
[--version] [--version-decimal] [--help]

look at her. all those lil flags just vibing in a row. pick the ones you need, bestie, it's giving build-system-bestie energy. 🦋

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

rasqal-config is a tool that is used to determine the compile and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use the Rasqal RDF query library.

fr fr. that's it. you're out here trying to build something that links against Rasqal, and you don't wanna hardcode paths and flags like a menace — so you ask this script instead and it hands you the exact strings your compiler and linker are craving. main character build tooling. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

rasqal-config accepts the following options:

• --version — prints the currently installed version of rasqal on the standard output. so you can go "which one do i have??" and it goes "this one, babe." 💖
• --version-decimal — prints the currently installed version of rasqal as a decimal integer. same vibe, but numeric, for when your script needs a number and not a cute lil string. 🔢
• --libs — prints the linker flags that are necessary to link a program with Rasqal. this is the "pls link me to the libs" flag. 🔗
• --libtool-libs — prints the path to the libtool file for rasqal. libtool girlies, this one's for you. 🧚
• --cflags — prints the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a program with the RDF query language. your compiler is gonna be so happy, she's gonna cry. 😭
• --prefix=PREFIX — if specified, use PREFIX instead of the installation prefix that Rasqal was built with when computing the output for the --cflags and --libs options.

⚠️ okay this part matters, don't skip it: this option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options. order matters, bestie. put it first or it just won't do the thing. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• librasqal(3)

go read that one too, it's her sister. 💜

🍓 AUTHOR 🍓

Dave Beckett - http://www.dajobe.org/

legend behaviour, honestly. 👑

and that's the whole page, you're welcome!! this one's from 2006-01-11, and the manual is rasqal-config(1) from General Commands Manual — so like, vintage but still iconic. go forth and build something cute with it. periodt. 💖✨🎀