Any thoughts on my patch, Marc?  I can solve my problems by putting a pkg-config file in my project for the name of the Gambit interpreter and compiler, but I'd prefer for it to be in Gambit itself.

On Feb 23, 2017 11:16 PM, "Bill Six" <billsix@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion, but Gambit already provides enough portability for me (in terms of compiler and OS).  The implementation of libbug is unapologetically very Gambit-specific

On Feb 23, 2017 9:36 PM, "C K Kashyap" <ckkashyap@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Bill,
Have you considered building on snow - just asking out of curiosity? Perhaps a gambit only approach.
Regards,
Kashyap 


On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Bill Six <billsix@gmail.com> wrote:
Kashyap,

I plan to use OS's package managers (macports, dpkg, rpm, ebuilds, etc).  It's slightly annoying repetition, but I have no interest in making yet another make/package manager.

Bill

On Feb 22, 2017 5:38 PM, "C K Kashyap" <ckkashyap@gmail.com> wrote:
I am curious to know what packages you have so far and where do you / or plan to host them?

I was wondering if it would be a good idea to have a github repo that would contain all the packages. In addition perhaps a set of "gsi" scripts for doing the package management?

Regarding pkg-config - I think it may not be a good dependency to buy into, for the reasons David mentioned (obviously the reason becomes stronger if you add windows to the mix :) ).

Regards,
Kashyap

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:29 PM, David Rush <kumoyuki@gmail.com> wrote:
I kind of hate pkg-config. Well not kind of, rather a lot actually. pretty much any packages that I have trouble building use it. it seems like a nice idea, but it doesn't seem to be sufficiently standardized to actually work well across distros (and even versions of the same distro)

On 22 February 2017 at 22:10, Bill Six <billsix@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm looking to make packages for Gambit-related projects of mine, and I noticed Arch linux in particular renames gsc and gsi to other names.  Is there a way for an external project to query gsc's and gsi's new names?

If not, I think Gambit should use pkg-config https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pkg-config

I have made a patch off of master (attached) which solves my immediate problems.

Please let me know what you think.

Bill

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