Re: gnustep-make experiment

[Matt Rice]

On 2007-02-09 08:41:29 -0800 Adam Fedor <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Feb 9, 2007, at 8:48 AM, Matt Rice wrote:
>
> > anyhow i guess i will come up with a patch to use a gnustep-config  
> > which 
> > gets its information from
> > GNUstep.conf and we can argue over that...
> > (in other words reimplement pkg-config for GNUstep)
> > I just don't think we should disregard existing tools/processes  
> > lightly.
>
> Sure that's true, but remember that these tools are all for non- 
> standard 
> systems.  Whenever I think about a change to the GNUstep  system, I 
> think 
> first about how it will affect the standard, and I  mean "ideal"  
> system, 
> that we are working towards (e.g. one with a  nice working 
> ProjectCenter, 
> etc). Neither GNustep.conf nor  PKG_CONFIG_PATH  would really be 
> needed in 
> the standard installation.  Developers always want to do something 
> unusual, 
> so we should make it  POSSIBLE for them to do whatever they want, but 
> it's 
> not required to  make it easy for them to do it.

well heres a quick hack on that... only lightly tested
just add
GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES ?= $(shell gnustep-config --makefiles)
include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/common.make

obviously gnustep-config needs to change wrt recent changes to make/FHS
 stuff just not sure what those changes are yet.

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