Hello, I made an attempt at implementing what was discussed in bug #5708 [0], that is, additional flags for `gnunet-config' to print various informations similar to what other `*-config' tools do (e.g. `nss-config'.)
After sending this mail I'm going to push a branch called 'dev/vanni/build-info'; it's a separate branch because even though the changes are very simple (even including the documentation), I'd like to get some feedback first, especially if more flags are requested. The following is a bit off-topic, but since it's something that might leverage the new gnunet-config flags, I'm going to ask here regardless. Would it be possible to provide with the core GNUnet installation an Autoconf macro to detect GNUnet properly? I'm using Autoconf to manage the GNUnet-based applications I'm writing, but detecting GNUnet is a bit of a mess. Of course with the new gnunet-config I can just rely on it, but if I had a macro provided by GNUnet itself, much like other programs like for example Guile Scheme do [1], it'd be better. This is especially true as getting a third-party GNUnet-based application to compile has surprising caveats: a very noticeable one is that, apparently, the `netinet/in.h' header is required when neither `gnunet_config.h' nor `platform.h' are `#include'd (which is what happens with third-party applications, at least those built using Autoconf.) This is something that can be noticed only when the program is actually compiled, but with a GNUnet-specific macro the check for the necessary headers (and all that it entails) can be done implicitly by the macro itself. I've made an attempt locally which first uses pkg-config and then falls back to the new gnunet-config, but before pushing it to the remote repository I'd like, once again, to hear some feedback on the matter, be it to pay attention to certain configurations or even be just a matter of following certain conventions. Thank you, A.V. --- [0] https://bugs.gnunet.org/view.php?id=5708 [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=guile.git;a=blob;f=meta/guile.m4;h=48642f027f7b002d40658511fe3bb831e83ebdfc;hb=HEAD
