Matthias Klose wrote: > This report was submitted to the Debian bug tracking system. Is this > something generally useful? > > I have packaged grx, the Graph unit emulation for debian. > I have sent a preliminary diff to the authors.
Fine, thanks. > But the integration into gpc > needs some support to make it easily useable. The problem is, that there is no > common place where to put unit sources, which get recompiled by the installed > gpc compilers on updates. I would suggest to add a directory like > /usr/share/gpc/units, where all packages can put their unit source files and > a e.g. update-gpc-units script which gets called by every package which > installs a new unit. Currently the users have to symlink the unit source > files into their project directory and compile them themselves. It can be done a little easier. With `--unit-path=/usr/share/gpc/units --automake' GPC will find the units without symlinks and (re-)compile them when necessary. If all system-wide units are installed in the same directory, this will be a one-time setting (so no update-gpc-units needed so far). For now, it can be done, e.g., as a wrapper script for GPC or an alias etc. In the future, a utility (gp) that will come with GPC will also support setting default options. > They also have > to give the needed library pathes of those units themselves. Yes, that can be a problem, but what's your suggested solution? Of course, if all (relevant) libraries are installed in a few standard places, the corresponding `-L' (and possibly `-Wl,-R') options can be set globally as said before. Otherwise, I think, there must be a way when installing a library to determine the necessary library paths (and other necessary options, e.g. also include paths if the units use C wrappers -- not necessary for GRX, but for a number of other libraries) and add them to the global options (which would then be stored somewhere in /etc I guess). I suppose this would be a job for the package maintainers ... Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://fjf.gnu.de/, 7977168E GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://www.gnu-pascal.de/todo.html GPC download signing key: 51FF C1F0 1A77 C6C2 4482 4DDC 117A 9773 7F88 1707
