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guile-config deprecation? |
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Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:42:14 -0800 (PST) |
Hi-
There's a bit of confusion on the guile-config deprecation.
NEWS says that guile-config "will be deprecated"
meta/guile-config.in says it "has been deprecated"
meta/guile.m4's GUILE_PROGS rule will error "guile-config required
but not found"
likewise those rules that depend on GUILE_PROGS, such as GUILE_FLAGS
and GUILE_SITE_DIR
In the manual, in the "parallel installations" section, it implies
that GUILE_SITE_DIR is the way to get the sitedir from pkg-config,
but with guile.m4, it is getting that information via guile-config,
which itself gets it from pkg-config.
In the README, it suggests "guile-config" is the way to get the
sitedir for the installation of slib.
The man page for pkg-config describes the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro,
but doesn't give any indication of how to set up any autoconf
flags beyond _CFLAGS and _LIBS. So it isn't clear that PKG_CHECK_MODULES
could be used as a replacement for GUILE_SITE_DIR.
It seems to me, that there is some inconsistency here. I'm worried
that guile-config will just disappear with no equally powerful,
documented replacement in place.
The quickest fix would be to not deprecated it, while
maybe creating and documenting a parallel set of pkg-config based
macros in guile.m4 for extracting things like sitedir.
Thanks,
Mike
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Re: bug#10488: guile-config deprecation? |
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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:35:41 +0100 |
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On Sat 02 Mar 2013 19:42, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
> I pushed it to a branch a year ago but it never got review. Here's the
> patch, rebased and attached. I'll commit it soon if there are no
> objections.
I have pushed this. Please test with your applications!
Andy
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