Alan Coopersmith wrote: > John Taylor wrote: > >> Dan wrote: >> >>> Interesting. >>> >>> Personally, I don't like Python. That is to say, I've learned a bit of >>> Python, and I don't like programming in it. But as Python is used by my >>> distribution's package management system ( Gentoo ), I have Python >>> installed on my system, and I've never really thought more about it. >>> >>> What did Perl do to you anyway? Just curious. >>> >> It may seem strange, but I don't like perl because of the way it must be >> installed. As far as I remember, it has not a configure script and a >> makefile. >> > > Umm... I'm pretty sure Larry Wall invented configure scripts, originally > for rn, then perl - and then the GNU project built autoconf to make > creating them easier for the rest of us. Perhaps you're confusing perl > with something else? > > In any case I guess just hack pkgconfiig i.g. /usr/lib*/pkgconfig/*.pc ( to pass configure) but then unfortunately depending how your build is, you could run into issues later on down the line, or maybe during the build i.g. -lpython etc..
try it out and see(personally seems more work to do so, but then again seems interesting). Justin P. Mattock _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg