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PREFIX(1)						      General Commands Manual							 PREFIX(1)

NAME
prefix - Script that allows you to reconfigure environment variables for multiple installations of a set of software installed on the same machine SYNOPSIS
prefix DESCRIPTION
It is assumed that the software for each installation is all under a single directory whose name is assigned to an environment variable called PREFIX. This arrangement of enabling multiple installations of software on a single machine is useful at many times. On a single server, it can provide for development, test, and production installations of software. Alternatively, on development servers, it allows for multiple development "sandboxes", one for each developer. On production servers, it allows for multiple versions of the production software to be installed. One might be the currently running software, one the previous software kept online as a fall-back, and one a new release of software wich is scheduled to be brought online soon. There are three usages of the prefix script: (1) The interactive usage should be placed as the last line of a user's ".profile". The user must be running the Korn shell (ksh) or the Bourne Again shell (bash). The user is prompted to enter one of the known PREFIX locations, specified in the $HOME/.prefixes file or the /etc/prefixes file. During configuration, the $PREFIX/.prefixrc file is sourced in order to accomplish environment-specific configurations. (2) The non-interactive user configuration does not consult $HOME/.prefixes or /etc/prefixes or prompt the user, but merely configures the environment in accordance with the cmd line argument. (3) The batch command usage is mainly for running commands from cron or running commands in another environment without changing to that environment. Usage (1): . prefix (sets up environment) (2): . prefix <prefix> (non-interactive setup) (3): prefix <prefix> <cmd> <args> (runs cmd configured for PREFIX) This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. AUTHOR
Prefix was written by Stephen Adkins <spadkins@gmail.com>, and is part of the App-Options distribution. This manual page was written by Jotam Jr. Trejo <jotamjr@debian.org.sv>, for the Debian systems (but may be used by others). Oct 07, 2010 PREFIX(1)

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ALLEGRO(1)							       4.0.3								ALLEGRO(1)

NAME
allegro-config - script to get information about the installed version of Allegro SYNOPSIS
allegro-config [--prefix[=DIR]] [--exec-prefix[=DIR]] [--version] [--libs] [--cflags] [--static] [--shared] [--env] [release|debug|profile] DESCRIPTION
allegro-config is a tool that is used to configure to determine the compiler and linker flags that should be used to compile and link pro- grams that use the Allegro library. It is intended to be used on Unix systems instead of the simple "-lalleg" call. EXAMPLE
gcc -o mygame mygame.o `allegro-config --libs` allegro-config will insert arguments needed to link into the command line. OPTIONS
allegro-config accepts the following options: --version Print the currently installed version of Allegro on the standard output. --libs Print the linker flags that are necessary to link an Allegro program. --cflags Print the compiler flags that are necessary to compile an Allegro program. --prefix=PREFIX If specified, use PREFIX instead of the installation prefix that Allegro was built with when computing the output for the --cflags and --libs options. This option is also used for the exec prefix if --exec-prefix was not specified. This option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options. --exec-prefix=PREFIX If specified, use PREFIX instead of the installation exec prefix that Allegro was built with when computing the output for the --cflags and --libs options. This option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options. --static Like --libs, but always print the linker flags needed to get a statically linked executable. --shared Like --libs, but always print the linker flags needed to get an executable linked against shared libs. --env Print some needed environment variables in the way needed in shell scripts. Output may be loaded into your environment using BASH#> eval `allegro-config --env` release This will use the optimized Allegro library which you should use when you are compiling for a release. debug This will add extra debug info into your programs, useful to find out where your program crashed or simply to debug it (names of functions are seen). You may choose this option while developing a program. profile This may be used when you want to profile your program - i.e. measure the speeds of various function calls. SEE ALSO
allegro-dev-tools(1) The allegro info entry COPYRIGHT
This manual page was written by Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). It is heavily based on a similar manpage for gtk-config, written by Owen Taylor. His notice: Copyright (C) 1998 Owen Taylor Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, pro- vided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in sup- porting documentation. Version 8 June 2003 ALLEGRO(1)
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