Re: [gentoo-dev] Announce: standalone libgpm

[Ned Ludd]

Please move this thread to the appropriate mailing list.. 
(ie not this list)



On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 14:31 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> schrieb:
>
> <snip>
>
> > > Yes, would be better, if it's included in the gpm release.
> > > But: it should be possible to build/install it independently from
> > > gpm, and also to build gpm against an already installed libgpm.
> > > So actually two separate packages, maybe distributed in one tarball.
> >
> > considering gpm uses autotools, i really dont see why there needs
> > to be all that many changes ... write it correctly and it'd be
> > easy to fold into configure.ac/Makefile.am
> >
> > ./configure --disable-binaries
>
> That doesn't seem to be clean enough for me. I need the libgpm,
> and only libgpm, built, and then gpm server built against this
> (already installed) libgpm, found via pkg-config. I've got very
> strict policies at this point.
>
> My further plan in short words:
>
> + further tests on libgpm
> + split off the gpm server and rewrite to build against an already
>   installed libgpm (found via pkg-config)
> + put both into some cumulative package, which can be build
>   just as the current gpm package.
>
> Meanwhile we also should try to get in the pkg-config stuff,
> and let several parts to be switched off as you suggested,
> optionally build the server against an installed libgpm, etc.
>
>
> cu
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
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