Quoting Balazs Scheidler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We are compiling libdbi on a number of platforms. I hope to get some > testing done with the latest CVS snapshot. >
Thanks for offering your help. Currently I have checked the latest CVS code on FreeBSD and on Cygwin without running into any problems. > One minor improvement that could be done: now as there's a dbi.pc file > in the libdbi source tree, you could use PKG_CONFIG_CHECK to find the > DBI libraries/headers. It would make it easier to install dbi drivers to > a custom location. (only specify PKG_CONFIG_PATH and be done with it). > > I tried to hack this into the old acinclude.m4 file, but basically this > would either break the configure command line arguments (I mean > --with-dbi-libdir and --with-dbi-incdir), or some magic would be needed > to support those. > > I'd consider the loss of --with-dbi-incdir/libdir for using the standard > interface (environment variable based) ok, but I didn't want to decide > it myself. I believe the --with-dbi-libdir and --with-dbi-incdir are crutches which we should get rid of if something more elegant (like PKG_CONFIG_CHECK) works. I'd greatly appreciate patches which implement this, even if we lose the configure switches. On the long run I'd like to move all information about "odd" installation locations into the host section of configure.in. If users insist on putting their software into non-standard folders they are supposed to know what they are doing, and the required tweaking of CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, and LDFLAGS should be documented in the manual. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Libdbi-drivers-devel mailing list Libdbi-drivers-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libdbi-drivers-devel
