From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bavier Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] gnu: Add xfig. Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:17:55 -0500 Message-ID: <87h9z8uhgc.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87oatjvlcy.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87egudx991.fsf@netris.org> <20141013062313.GA16250@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60986) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdhLo-0000bT-9S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:16:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdhLj-0007BU-9M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:15:56 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-x234.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c05::234]:36996) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdhLj-0007BC-3H for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:15:51 -0400 Received: by mail-ig0-f180.google.com with SMTP id uq10so10800893igb.13 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2014 08:15:50 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <20141013062313.GA16250@jocasta.intra> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org John Darrington writes: > Looking at the mass of subsitions in xfig, it seems to me that xfig is > fighting against imake. I would rather say that it's filling in the holes in imake's system knowledge. > It has been a few years since I used imake, but I seem to remember > there was the possibility to have a "vendor" specific control file. > In our case Guix is the vendor, so perhaps we should have a guix.cf > file in imake. That sounds like a nice solution. > Perhaps it would be better to have a imake-build-system which > generated it dynamically. I was trying to avoid this until there was a need from more packages. I'm not familiar with many projects that still use imake, but it appears you might be, with your xboing patch ;) Btw, I did push a change to xfig and transfig that should let them build for i686 (which I tested locally now) and mips (which I don't have the means to check locally). -- Eric Bavier Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html