Adding support for generating pkg-config .pc files

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Dear HDF5,
trying to consume HDF5 as a library is cumbersome, due to the fact that
it does not provide pkg-config .pc files, which are the standard way of
discovering build-time dependencies on UNIX-like systems. If I provide
a patch, are you willing to entertain the idea of merging it? It would
help a lot of downstream projects, as they don't have to guess the
flags anymore.

Regards
David

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David,

We will be more than happy to accept the patch. Please send it to help@hdfgroup.org<mailto:help@hdfgroup.org>. We will review it and will go from there.

Thank you!

Elena

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On Sep 3, 2016, at 8:46 PM, David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> wrote:

Dear HDF5,
trying to consume HDF5 as a library is cumbersome, due to the fact that
it does not provide pkg-config .pc files, which are the standard way of
discovering build-time dependencies on UNIX-like systems. If I provide
a patch, are you willing to entertain the idea of merging it? It would
help a lot of downstream projects, as they don't have to guess the
flags anymore.

Regards
David

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