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From: Andy Patterson <ajpatter@uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: bug#32770: Packaging SLIME/SWANK as Common Lisp library
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 01:54:35 -0400
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To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: 32770@debbugs.gnu.org

Hi Pierre,

On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:30:03 +0200
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:

> > In =E2=80=9Cguile-sly=E2=80=9D, for example, the configure script accep=
ts
> > =E2=80=9C--with-libfreeimage-prefix=3D=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9C--with-lib=
gslcblas-prefix=3D=E2=80=9D,
> > which are then used to construct a full path to the libraries.  In
> > other cases where the build system does not provide a mechanism for
> > this we need to patch the sources such as in =E2=80=9Cguile-dbi=E2=80=
=9D. =20
>=20
> But as far I know of, most Common Lisp packages don't provide a
> configure script.  So can this apply here?
>=20

I was suggesting that lisp packages should adopt some configuration
mechanism, either through scripts or by something that asdf could take
care of.  It's something that I think we could discuss with the
upstream communities once we have a good grasp on our use case.

--
Andy