On 2007-02-15 12:44:18 -0800 Adam Fedor <address@hidden> wrote:
On Feb 15, 2007, at 7:35 AM, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
Have we even tried, experimentally, doing this refactoring to see
if it
actually would make things simpler? The best way to prove a point
is
code. I would like to see if it can be done.
While I understand it's not *strictly* needed for FHS
compliance..... it
is something that many developers, outside of GNUstep, use on a
daily
basis.
If someone can produce a patch which would simplify gnustep-make
that
uses pkg-config, I really don't see a reason not to consider
including
it.
I don't really see the point of this. It might be nice to support
pkg-config for those who want it, but pkg-config doesn't even come
close
to supporting the requirements of GNUstep development. First,
pkg-config
is only for developers. Maybe it would be useful for writting a
few tools
and such using GNUstep, but for anything more complicated? Why
would a
developer want to used all the advanced capabilities of the GNUstep
envirnoment AND want to write all their Makefiles from scratch
using
pkg-config? Seems counter-productive.
As Nicola said, it doesn't even simply things, either.
well attached is a patch anyways which implements a step-config
program in c,
it is very similar to pkg-config, but provides a c api and some
output formats
make has been modified to output a file gnustep-config.make so
step-config
only
needs to be run once... gnustep.cfg unlike gnustep.conf is required
GNUstep.sh has
been modified to run step-config instead of the other way around
This patch is against yesterdays svn so its possibly a little bit out
of date
a few things to note, it defers to the environment, so if GNUstep.sh
wants to
set
something like library-combo etc, it should pick that up
GNUstep.sh doesn't really want all variables just some of them, so i
still
need to add
support for outputting multiple specified variables
then GNUstep.sh just needs to go -x foo -x bar for all the variables
it does
want.
and it currently doesn't clean gnustep-config.make.
gnustep.cfg.in