[Help-smalltalk] Questions on GNU Smalltalk packaging

[Thomas Girard]

Hello,

I intend to bring the Debian package of GNU Smalltalk up to date[1] and
have some questions about GNU Smalltalk packaging:

 * is `gst.im' an architecture independent file?
 * does GNU Smalltalk dynamic loading mechanism rely on the `.la' files?
   For instance, should `i18n.la' be installed?
 * if I drop unsupported/ and examples/ from the installed files, should
   I update the `packages.xml' file?

Also, I've noticed that:

 * when GNU Smalltalk is configured with `--disable-static' the
   generated (and installed) `gst' binary has an RPATH set to the
   location where files where extracted, e.g. if I extract GNU
   Smalltak sources into $GST, the compiled `gst' will have an
   RPATH to `$GST/libgst/.libs'
 * in the generated `gst.im', we can find with `strings' the full path
   to where `Finish.st' was extracted, i.e. `$GST/scripts/Finish.st'.


Thanks,

Thomas

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=375649