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-rw-r--r--doc/gettingstarted.rst19
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 2f0ca9c..27706dd 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ To run the test suite, invoke::
$ make check
-Python_ is required to run the tests.
-
Documentation
-------------
@@ -57,6 +55,5 @@ required to generate the documentation.
.. _Jansson: http://www.digip.org/jansson/
.. _`MIT license`: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
-.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
diff --git a/doc/gettingstarted.rst b/doc/gettingstarted.rst
index 2221d07..34d2ab9 100644
--- a/doc/gettingstarted.rst
+++ b/doc/gettingstarted.rst
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ the ``--prefix=DIR`` argument to ``./configure``. See ``./configure
no options to customize the resulting Jansson binary.)
The command ``make check`` runs the test suite distributed with
-Jansson. Python_ is required to run the tests. This step is not
-strictly necessary, but it may find possible problems that Jansson has
-on your platform. If any problems are found, please report them.
+Jansson. This step is not strictly necessary, but it may find possible
+problems that Jansson has on your platform. If any problems are found,
+please report them.
If you obtained the source from a Git repository (or any other source
control system), there's no ``./configure`` script as it's not kept in
@@ -44,12 +44,11 @@ to use ``autoreconf``::
autoreconf -vi
This command creates the ``./configure`` script, which can then be
-used as described in the previous section.
+used as described above.
.. _autoconf: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
.. _automake: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
.. _libtool: http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/
-.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
Installing Prebuilt Binary Packages
@@ -85,8 +84,8 @@ required to generate the documentation.
.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
-Compiling Programs Using Jansson
-================================
+Compiling Programs That Use Jansson
+===================================
Jansson involves one C header file, :file:`jansson.h`, so it's enough
to put the line
@@ -101,3 +100,9 @@ There's also just one library to link with, ``libjansson``. Compile and
link the program as follows::
cc -o prog prog.c -ljansson
+
+Starting from version 1.2, there's also support for pkg-config_::
+
+ cc -o prog prog.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs jansson`
+
+.. _pkg-config: http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/