On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Greg Stein wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:28:18PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >
> > This is an E-mail I sent to gstein about the build system. If anyone can
> > also shed more light onto the subject, I would be grateful.
>
> Didn't give me a lot of time to respond... :-)
>
> >...
> > The first is the issue of the "install = buildonly" target, in which we
> > have to put programs that should be compiled by make, but not installed by
> > "make install". This is intended for svn-push and for the minimal client
> > and stuff like that.
>
> I'd take Philip's(?) suggestion and call it 'contrib' instead of
> buildonly. Also, I would not put those into the default build rule. These
> are contributed programs, and many developers and *users* may not want
> them built.
>
> If you change it over to 'contrib', then a person can always do:
>
> $ make contrib
>
OK.
> >...
> > The second issue is that of installing the Subversion pkgconfig.file.
> > subversion.pc.in (or svn.pc.in - whatever) exists, and is compiled into
> > subversion.pc by configure. It needs to be installed in the Subversion
> > installation path, under /lib/pkgconfig/. How can this be achieved?
>
> Hunh? We don't have a subversion.pc file. Should one be created, we'd
> handle it similar to svn-config.
>
There's a patch I wrote to add one here:
http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/svn-patches/add-pkgconfig.patch.txt
But it does not get installed in the right place.
> > Other than that, it seems Chia-Ling Kao has some problems in integrating
> > the build of the Perl bindings into build.conf, and would need some help.
> > I don't know too much more about it so please ask him.
>
> Haven't seen that. Will look.
>
clkao, care to state what needs to be done?
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> Cheers,
> -g
>
>
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Received on Thu Sep 25 13:22:14 2003