On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:06:29AM +0000, Nick Glencross wrote:
> Joshua Hoblitt (via RT) wrote:
>
> >Parrot should support pkgconfig by installing a pc data file. It should
> >probably be named parrot.pc.
> >
> Ok, I can do this. I've had an initial stab at it, and one thing that
> I've had to do is provide a quoting mechanism into the configuration
> file substitution because pkgconfig too uses ${name} for other purpose.
> I've going to suggest ${{name}} as something which will be replaced
> literally by ${name}.Great. There is another bug to change the interpolation syntax to @foo@ to avoid just this issue. Since you've already added the escape mechanism so lets leave it in place but consider it temporary. As a side note, Parrot::Configure::Step is only partially tested and I'm rather nervous about messing with it until it has better test coverage. > I think that most projects leave the .pc in the top-level directory; I > don't think that we have anywhere better at the moment. Seems reasonable. That's what I with my autotool packages too. > The file isn't yet installed because I don't know how to update the > MANIFEST.generated file to place it in .../lib/pkgconfig. Any help would > be great. Another install type/class will have to be added. I'll take care of this when I get home this evening. Lets leave the bug open until I've gotten the install working. Cheers, -J --
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