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Randall Leeds commented on COUCHDB-1012:
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I think we're getting carried away.
localstatelibdir (db-dir), localstatelogdir (log-dir) should disappear from
here. localstatedir is the only variable that matters to autotools[1] and we
don't even accept the others as flags to configure. I'd drop pid-file, uri-file
and all the autotools stuff because it's not relevant for developing _modules_
for couchdb. It's relevant for building and running couchdb, when the values
are either being passed by the packager or set by the operator.
Something like --libdir to mean the erlang lib dir for all the erlang modules
we install and --configdir to be the directory containing local.d and default.d.
That's all developers should need. If developers of plugins want to install
documentation of various formats they can do their own autotools dance. The
documentation and supporting tooling or whatever else somone might package
together with a couchdb module and how they distribute it is not our concern,
but unless we provide a way for developers to modify the erlang code path we
need them to install to our --libdir. Otherwise, it's just erlang modules that
couch can load via its hooks in the .ini system. We shouldn't overthink this.
[1]
https://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/autoconf/Installation-Directory-Variables.html
> Utility to help plugin developers manage paths
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Key: COUCHDB-1012
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1012
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Build System
> Reporter: Randall Leeds
> Assignee: Noah Slater
> Fix For: 1.2
>
> Attachments:
> 0001-add-couch-config-file-used-to-ease-the-build-of-plug.patch,
> 0001-add-couch-config-file-used-to-ease-the-build-of-plug.patch,
> 0001-support-pkg-config-for-plugins-COUCHDB-1012.patch
>
>
> Developers may want to write plugins (like GeoCouch) for CouchDB. Many hooks
> in the configuration system allow loading arbitrary Erlang modules to handle
> various internal tasks, but currently there is no straightforward and
> portable way for developers of these plugins to discover the location of the
> CouchDB library files.
> Two options that have been proposed are to use pkg-config or install a
> separate script that could be invoked (e.g. as couch-config --erl-libs) to
> discover important CouchDB installation paths.
> As far as I know the loudest argument against pkg-config is lack of support
> for Windows.
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