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

Bill Six billsix at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 15:11:54 EST 2017


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 at 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 at 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 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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