[gambit-list] I'd like for Gambit to use pkgconfig

C K Kashyap ckkashyap at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 21:36:27 EST 2017


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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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.wikipedi
>>> a.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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