On 03/18/2010 02:00 PM, Johannes Schmid wrote: > Hi! > > I am against this. There are tons of reasons why installing src only > could be broken and I don't want to check for corrupt installations.
Sure, I'm not suggesting that people should install src only. I personally do during development, and will move .pc files there for my modules. Thought I share my experience. Plus, it's fair for many libraries to say that installing src installs the library completely. > Second, you could easily pass --disable-gtk-doc (or not pass > --enable-gtk-doc) to speed things up. As you don't install the current > docs anyway, this won't harm. Until you want to do "make dist"... behdad > Regards, > Johannes > > Am Donnerstag, den 18.03.2010, 13:54 -0400 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod: >> Hey, >> >> I have a minor proposal for library maintainers: Move .pc files for each >> library to the src directory for the library itself. >> >> The benefit is mostly during development. I personally do "make install" in >> the src dir only, because if I do that in the toplevel, I have to wait an >> extra hour for gtk-doc to finish generating docs for the installation. "make >> install" in src/ works fine for the most part except that it doesn't install >> the pkg-config file. So for example I do "make install" in vte/src updated >> to >> master, then go building gnome-terminal and still get a version error for >> vte. >> Because the new .pc file is not installed. >> >> By grouping the .pc file and the library itself, these kind of issues are >> avoided. >> >> A couple minor issues with doing this are: >> >> - The uninstalled.pc files need to remain in toplevel to be useful. Means, >> they will be separated from .pc files >> >> - For packages shipping multiple libraries, the .pc files will not be >> gathered in one place anymore. >> >> I don't think any of those two is a major issue. >> >> What do people think? >> >> Cheers, >> behdad >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-devel-list mailing list >> desktop-devel-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
