Re: Suggestion about pkg() function

[Thomas Weber]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:20:02AM +0100, c. wrote:
> 
> On 26 Nov 2010, at 19:32, José Luis García Pallero wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I think that it would be interesting to add an option to pkg()
> > function in order to pass arguments to the Makefile for compiling a
> > package. For example, if in the makefile the order for compiling a c
> > source code is $(CC) -Wall source.c -o source.o, and CC environment
> > variable point to the sun compiler but the options in the compilation
> > order are for the gcc compiler expecting that gcc is the default in
> > CC, it produces errors. 

In that case, the Makefile is buggy or your code is compiler-specific.
I'm not sure that adding extra complexity to pkg() is the right way to
go. After all, we are duplicating autoconf functionality here.

> > Not all packages for Octave have a configure script that can create
> > the Makefile and not all people knows autotools

Then they should be educated. After all, if we replicate autotools'
functionality, developers will have to gain the knowledge that's
currently built into autotools *and* write cross-platform,
cross-compiler tests.

        Thomas