YAZ-CONFIG(1)

💖 yaz-config — the little script that tells you everything about YAZ 💖

okay hi bestie, welcome to YAZ-CONFIG(1) ✨ this one lives in the Commands section of the manual (yes, section 1, we love a section 1 moment) and honestly? it's giving "personal assistant for your build system" 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

yaz-config — a script that hands you the deets about YAZ 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

yaz-config [--prefix[=DIR]] [--version] [--libs] [--lalibs] [--cflags]
           [--include] [--comp] [-V] [libraries...]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so yaz-config is a script, right? and what it does is spit out the information your own software needs so it can actually build stuff that uses YAZ. like, it's the middleman between your code and YAZ and it's lowkey iconic for it 💖

here's the library situation, the ones that are supported:

• threads — use the threaded version of YAZ. that's the one. that's the list 🧚

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --prefix[=DIR] — returns the prefix of YAZ, or, if you pass DIR, it pretends a different prefix instead 👑
• --version — returns the version of YAZ. the numberrr ✨
• --libs — the library specification you should use when you're using YAZ 🔥
• --lalibs — returns the library specification. (yes, another library one, she contains multitudes 💅)
• --cflags — returns the C compiler flags 🩵
• --include — returns the C compiler includes for YAZ header files, in the form -Ipath 📁
• --comp — returns the full path to YAZ' ASN.1 compiler: yaz-asncomp 🌟
• -V — returns the YAZ SHA1 ID (from Git) plus the version. the receipts, fr fr 💀

also, per the synopsis, you can toss in [libraries...] at the end 🫶

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🌈 FILES 🌈

• /usr/bin/yaz-config
• /usr/lib/libyaz*.a
• /usr/include/yaz/*.h

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• yaz(7)
• the section "How to make apps using YAZ on UNIX" in the YAZ manual 📖

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

Index Data 🫡 absolute legends, no cap

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ok that's the whole page bestie, go forth and build something cute with it 🌸✨

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this was YAZ 5.38.1, dated 10/16/2026 — mwah, periodt 💅💖