From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruno Haible Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: guile-config deprecated or not? Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:32 +0100 Message-ID: <201102210000.33044.bruno@clisp.org> References: <201102191505.22181.bruno@clisp.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298242854 6377 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2011 23:00:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:00:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 21 00:00:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PrIGn-0005rO-Ay for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58138 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PrIGl-0001j9-LT for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:00:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36505 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PrIGb-0001hi-LX for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:00:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PrIGa-0004sg-Cr for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:00:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.161]:51707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PrIGZ-0004sP-ON for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:00:36 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1298242834; l=981; s=domk; d=haible.de; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:In-Reply-To: References:Cc:Date:Subject:To:From:X-RZG-CLASS-ID:X-RZG-AUTH; bh=bfEqpvbnyrZacWI+bPSYjVnPozQ=; b=t3l12A7TeMJm3ASm3QAzwJ529adj84ZCRONB4H30aN9uITG5VPFsEjL5aWK9tyajiw7 eNWXTlDCI0Sw0vSlX/xDxCjy3RRNBGy+I44/5947+PreHEgr37ka4QSwQkmtSRwvOKRVg 7tHuzXJbo1adxsUb+gR1EPbSDeNh1OZG2F4= X-RZG-AUTH: :Ln4Re0+Ic/6oZXR1YgKryK8brksyK8dozXDwHXjf9hj/zDJRaPAl/HgmxFw= X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Original-Received: from linuix.haible.de (dslb-088-069-163-162.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.69.163.162]) by post.strato.de (cohen mo18) (RZmta 25.5) with ESMTPA id 506e55n1KJNttV ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:34 +0100 (MET) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 81.169.146.161 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:5202 Archived-At: Andy Wingo wrote: > > So, is guile-config deprecated or not? > > It is deprecated, yes. I have fixed the examples to use pkg-config. I > did not fix guile.m4 though, as the current system does have the > characteristic of selecting for whatever version of Guile you have > installed This is a good property: It uses the installed guile that matches the 'guile-config' program that is found in PATH. > though not allowing you to choose. Huh? The user can influence which guile installation is chosen by modifying PATH. Without guile-config, the user would have to manipulate PKG_CONFIG_PATH in order to get the "right" guile used (from his perspective). I would vote for undeprecating guile-config for this reason. > Ideally we can figure out a way to merge in your -rpath code into > pkg.m4. Please keep me in the loop when you start working on this. Thanks. Bruno -- In memoriam Juliusz Bursche