2006-08-16 Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>

	* pkg-config.1: Apply patch from Ed Catmur to document
	PKG_CHECK_EXIST.  Thanks a lot for both patches.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 14305de3c25e8b521a6832567616e33bc403c756..1e7c77c9ba0e50d0b6ad0fd19f0c83028503c0bb 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
        PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG and that it should be used if the first call
        to PKG_CHECK_MODULES might not happen.
 
+       * pkg-config.1: Apply patch from Ed Catmur to document
+       PKG_CHECK_EXIST.  Thanks a lot for both patches.
+
 2005-12-28  Tollef Fog Heen  <tfheen@err.no>
 
        * configure.in, Makefile.am: Only use -Wall and other gcc-only

diff --git a/pkg-config.1 b/pkg-config.1
index 41fd1457367975ffc7f6b3aefed4e0e2613e203a..80775efbb9f036b552fe3c569e81231060244316 100644 (file)
--- a/pkg-config.1
+++ b/pkg-config.1
@@ -309,6 +309,15 @@ explicit call to PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG in your configure.ac
 Defines the PKG_CONFIG variable to the best pkg-config available,
 useful if you need pkg-config but don't want to use PKG_CHECK_MODULES.
 
+.I "PKG_CHECK_EXISTS(MODULES, [ACTION-IF-FOUND], [ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND])"
+
+Check to see whether a particular set of modules exists.  Similar
+to PKG_CHECK_MODULES(), but does not set variables or print errors.
+
+Similar to PKG_CHECK_MODULES, make sure that the first instance of
+this or PKG_CHECK_MODULES is called, or make sure to call
+PKG_CHECK_EXISTS manually
+
 .SH METADATA FILE SYNTAX
 To add a library to the set of packages \fIpkg-config\fP knows about,
 simply install a \fI.pc\fP file. You should install this file to