On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 08:39:53PM -0700, David R. Morrison wrote: > On May 6, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Remi Mommsen wrote: > > > > I have a package (root5) which builds many shlibs and has different > > variants. Depending on the variant, some shlibs are built or not [...] > > How do I handle this situation? > > I haven't looked at the package to see what your variant structure > is, but presumably there is some core collection of dylib files which > are built for all variants, and then some extra ones which only occur > in some variants?
A further question is whether the dylib that are exist in all are *the same* in all. That's important for drm's Idea #2: > 2) A basic package would provide the dylibs that are in common for > all variants, and then the variant packages would build other > splitoffs with other dylibs in them (as needed). The disadvantage of > this is that people may have to compile things twice. You would > probably also need separate .info files. If a dylib file that exists in multiple variants is not the same in all of them, then a core package plus varianted add-ons won't work. OTOH, if the core dylib are identical in all variants, then one probably could hack the build to avoid building those core again in the variant add-on packages. Quick example would be the python bindings for gnome-menus: the shared libraries and python bindings are all part of the same source tarball and is designed so a single "./configure && make" builds it all, so we first build the libs with python disabled, and then, in a separate package, build *just* the python bindings for a given python variant by hacking to point to the installed lib instead of the one in the build dir. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
