redland-config(1)

💖 redland-config — the manual page bestie 💖

okay so this is the page for redland-config(1), which lives in the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood Unix box. it's a lil script. it tells you stuff. it slays. let's go 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

redland-config — a script to get information about the installed version of Redland

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

no cap, that's the whole vibe right there. you run it, you pass it some flags, it hands you back the info. periodt. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like… redland-config is a tool. a little helper icon. 👑

what it DOES is it figures out the compile and linker flags you should be using when you wanna compile and link programs that use the Redland RDF library. that's it. that's the whole job. and honestly? it eats. it's giving "quietly essential build-system support." 🔥

if you've ever been like "bestie why won't my thing link" — yeah. this is the thing that answers that. 🫶

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

redland-config accepts the following options, and every single one of them matters, so we are NOT skipping any:

• --version — prints the currently installed version of redland to standard output. just the version. cute and simple. 💖
• --version-decimal — prints the currently installed version of redland as a decimal integer. yes, a decimal integer. for when your build scripts are doing math and need a number, not a vibe. 🔢
• --libs — prints the linker flags that are necessary to link a redland program. heads up though: this excludes linker arguments used to build the librdf shared library. so it's the "link against it" set, not the "build it" set. iykyk. 🔗
• --libtool-libs — prints the flags that are necessary to link a redland program with libtool. libtool girlies, this one's for you. 🧚
• --private-libs — prints the linker flags that are necessary to build the librdf shared library. note that this option is not usually needed, because the librdf shared library has already been dynamically linked against these libs. so it's the "just in case" option. lowkey niche, highkey valid. 🙈
• --cflags — prints the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a redland program. the compile-time half of the equation. 🌈
• --prefix=PREFIX — if specified, use PREFIX instead of the installation prefix that redland was built with, when computing the output for the --cflags and --libs options.

⚠️ okay listen, this one has a RULE: this option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options. order matters, bestie. do not test this. 💀

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• redland(3)

(and yes, the trailing comma is canon. i don't make the rules. 💅)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Dave Beckett — http://www.dajobe.org/

so that's the whole page!! you made it to the end, which means you're officially a redland-config understander. go compile something iconic. 🌟

this little cutie of a manual page is dated 2008-09-07 and it belongs to redland-config(1) — mwah, take care, bye!! 💖✨🦋🎀🌸