On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Leopold Toetsch wrote:

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> I'm not quite sure, if we need the additional complexity of a
> build-script that generates parrot-config. It's for sure more flexible
> but OTOH we probably just need a few shortcuts, which could be handled
> directly too.
>
> > One thing I didn't address is what kind of shortcuts folks want. I just
> > have a couple of example shortcuts in the script.
>
> Yeah. I was thinking of just
>
>   --compile
>   --link
>
> maybe with shared variants that emit everything needed to create e.g. a
> t/src/*.c -ish binary.
>
> Let's see what other people would need.

for me, this would greatly simplify the mod_parrot build process, though
i'd like to see it broken down into at least --cflags, --include,
--ldflags and --libs so we can use our own flags.  these options are
pretty standard for *-config programs (apr-config, gtk-config, etc.).

-jeff

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