[Scons-users] Would some helper functions for working with pkg-config be useful?

[Bill Deegan]

I'm working my way through all bugs in scons' bug tracker which have
patches.

Would people find this useful?
http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1078

def ParsePkgConfig(self, name):
+        """
+        Pass the output of pkg-config --cflags --libs <name> to ParseConfig
+        """
+
+        return self.ParseConfig('pkg-config --cflags --libs %s' % name)

+
+def CheckPkgConfig(context, version):
+    """
+    Check whether at least the specified version of pkg-config is available
+    """
+    context.Message('Checking for pkg-config version %s... ' % version)
+    ret = context.TryAction('pkg-config
--atleast-pkgconfig-version=%s' % version)[0]
+    context.Result(ret)
+    return ret
+
+def CheckPkgConfigPackage(context, desc):
+    """
+    Check to see if a pkg-config package exists.  desc should be something
+    like 'GTK+-2.0 >= 2.4.9'.
+    """
+    context.Message('Checking for %s... ' % desc)
+    ret = context.TryAction('pkg-config --exists \'%s\'' % desc)[0]
+    context.Result(ret)
+    return ret
+

-Bill
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