Re: Guile language support in make
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On Sun, May 11 2014, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Thinking about the poor people trying to bootstrap things, I'm tempted
> to suggest doing this as two separate source packages. Make is *so*
> far down the bottom of the stack that adding a dependency on another
> language could cause significant problems.
Well, I was thinking of build profiles for that.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Build-Depends: ....
guile-2.0-dev <!profile.withguile>
Packagte: make
Build-Profiles: !withguile
Package: make-guile
Build-Profiles: withguile
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I know I can't do that until Jess is released and dpkg 1.17.2 is
in stable.
In the meanwhile, looking at gnuplot and kerrberos, I see how I
can do detached build directories and dh overrides to actually build
two binary packages from the same source package. What I don't see is
how to manage to add the build dependency without inconveniencing
bootstrapping with a single source package. I don't have the energy to
create a brand new source package from the same mangled make upstream
source.
manoj
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