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From: Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at>
Cc: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
Subject: Re: Release now?
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:28:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lm0472ak.fsf@alice.rotty.yi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lju1es7abv.fsf@burns.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "25 Feb 2003 14:34:44 +0100")

Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> writes:
>
>> I'm all for shorter intervals between releases, but it would be good
>> to make sure that packages expecting 1.6 can work with 1.8 (modulo
>> insisting on a specific version when it isn't necessary, which is easy
>> to patch).
>
> Yes, we definitely need to be able to have two versions of Guile
> installed with the same prefix and have them be usable for running
> programs.  However, I don't think we need to make special arrangements
> for being able to compile against two versions of Guile at the same
> time.  Having to use different prefices for the two versions seems
> acceptable to me.
>
> Would pkg-config address this issue?  I.e. could one say `guile-config
> --use-version 1.6 link` (or something similar) with the effect that
> the right '-L' and '-R' options are spit out?
>
If you talk of pkg-config[0], you could easily have this by simply
installing two .pc files (named for example, guile-1.6.pc and
guile-1.8.pc) in $(prefix)/lib/pkgconfig. You'd then call `pkg-config
--libs guile-1.6' to get the right -L and -R options...

Regards, Andy

[0] http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-25 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-24 12:37 Release now? Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-02-24 13:08 ` Dale P. Smith
2003-02-24 13:21   ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-02-24 13:32 ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-25 13:34   ` Marius Vollmer
2003-02-25 16:08     ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-25 18:38       ` Rob Browning
2003-02-26  1:51         ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-26  2:27           ` Rob Browning
2003-02-27 14:25             ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-27 15:21               ` pkg-config support for guile Greg Troxel
2003-03-22 23:31                 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-04-23 21:22                   ` Greg Troxel
2003-05-16 23:21                     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-02-27 16:54               ` Release now? Rob Browning
2003-02-27 18:07                 ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-27 18:45                   ` Rob Browning
2003-02-27 19:25                     ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-27 20:14                       ` Rob Browning
2003-02-27 19:06                 ` Rob Browning
2003-02-27 19:13                   ` Rob Browning
2003-02-27 19:36                     ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-27 20:02                       ` Rob Browning
2003-02-27 20:54                         ` Greg Troxel
2003-02-27 21:07                           ` Dale P. Smith
2003-02-27 21:30                             ` Dale P. Smith
2003-02-27 21:47                           ` Rob Browning
2003-04-25 19:26                           ` Neil Jerram
2003-02-25 16:28     ` Andreas Rottmann [this message]
2003-02-24 18:35 ` Rob Browning
2003-02-25 13:20 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-03-03 14:06   ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-04-25 19:28   ` Neil Jerram
2003-04-25 22:59     ` Marius Vollmer

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