BOMTOOL(1)		    General Commands Manual		    BOMTOOL(1)

NAME
     bomtool – a tool for generating SPDX-based software bills of material

SYNOPSIS
     bomtool [options] module ...

DESCRIPTION
     bomtool is a program which generates a textual SPDX 2.0 software bill of
     materials (SBOM) for a given set of pkg-config modules.  The output of
     this tool can then be translated into other SBOM formats as necessary.

     The options are as follows:

     --about
	     Print the version number, the Copyright notice, and the license
	     of the bomtool program to standard output and exit.  Most other
	     options and all command line arguments are ignored.

     --version
	     Print the version number of the bomtool program to standard
	     output and exit.  Most other options and all command line
	     arguments are ignored.

ENVIRONMENT
     PKG_CONFIG_DEBUG_SPEW
	     If set, print debugging messages to stderr.

     PKG_CONFIG_IGNORE_CONFLICTS
	     If set, ignore Conflicts rules in modules.	 Has the same effect
	     as the --ignore-conflicts option in pkgconf(1)

     PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
	     A colon-separated list of low-priority directories where pc(5)
	     files are looked up.  The module search path is constructed by
	     appending this list to PKG_CONFIG_PATH, which enjoys higher
	     priority.	If PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR is not defined, the default list
	     compiled into the bomtool program from the PKG_DEFAULT_PATH
	     preprocessor macro is appended instead.  If PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR is
	     defined but empty, nothing is appended.

     PKG_CONFIG_MAXIMUM_TRAVERSE_DEPTH
	     Impose a limit on the allowed depth in the dependency graph.

     PKG_CONFIG_PATH
	     A colon-separated list of high-priority directories where pc(5)
	     files are looked up.

     PKG_CONFIG_PRELOADED_FILES
	     Colon-separated list of pc(5) files which are loaded before any
	     other pkg-config files.  These packages are given highest
	     priority over any other pc(5) files that would otherwise provide
	     a given package.

EXIT STATUS
     The bomtool utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES
     Generating an SBOM for the package named foo:
	   $ bomtool foo
	   SPDXVersion: SPDX-2.2
	   DataLicense: CC0-1.0
	   SPDXID: SPDXRef-DOCUMENT
	   DocumentName: SBOM-SPDX-fooC641.2.3
	   DocumentNamespace: https://spdx.org/spdxdocs/bomtool-2.4.3
	   Creator: Tool: bomtool 2.4.3
	   [...]

SEE ALSO
     pc(5), pkgconf(1)

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