On 1/10/06, Joshua Hoblitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 you say, what I've done fits in with how things are currently and
can be changed (it's only been one extra line of code). @foo@
certainly matches the autoconf notation, so is more consistent.
I'll continue now that we've got the 'pkgconfigdir' option, thanks!
Nick
