From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: pkg-config support Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 09:59:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87mynaz9gb.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <87lk2xd5qp.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209632399 12503 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2008 08:59:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 08:59:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 01 11:00:35 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JrUeY-00084M-RJ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 11:00:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52815 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrUdr-0002u6-TN for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 04:59:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrUdQ-0002in-Vo for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 04:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrUdP-0002hk-Mv for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 04:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59796 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrUdP-0002hV-Au for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 04:59:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JrUdK-0008GV-AV; Thu, 01 May 2008 04:59:18 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-145-183-175.range86-145.btcentralplus.com [86.145.183.175]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86D791F674A; Thu, 1 May 2008 09:59:17 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from laruns (laruns [192.168.0.10]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9BCF3800D; Thu, 1 May 2008 09:59:16 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <87lk2xd5qp.fsf@gnu.org> (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s's?= message of "Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:33:34 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7201 Archived-At: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=E8s) writes: > Hi, > > Pkg-config support has been requested several times [0, 1], and I think > time has come to add it. :-) Marius once postponed it considering it > undesirable to maintain two configuration mechanisms [2], but I think > the maintenance overhead is really negligible. Agreed, this is a nice addition. > Several patches [3, 4] have been posted and this one is vaguely based on > the one by Aaron VanDevender [4]. The rationale for doing it in > Automake rather than through `AC_CONFIG_FILES' is that `$pkgdatadir' is > not available in the latter. But $pkgdatadir is always ${datadir}/guile. So, in my view, better to rely on this and use AC_CONFIG_FILES, instead of introducing the sed dependency and incantation in Makefile.am. > I'm not sure whether that should be > `guile.pc' or `guile-1.8.pc'. We can probably go for `guile.pc' and > change the name in future versions if need be. I'd vote for guile-1.8.pc now. > The patch also reinstates `autoconf.texi', which was not included by > `guile.texi', and adds a few lines of (obvious) documentation. Nice. Regards, Neil