On 19/09/2012 14:54, Mark Wright wrote:
David Matthews <david.matth...@prolingua.co.uk> writes:
However this raises the question as to why you have included
the "with-x" option at all. Unless you have strong reasons to include
it I would recommend not building with this. I doubt that many users
will actually want the X-Windows system and building with this option
will introduce many unnecessary dependencies.
On Gentoo we allow the users to configure with USE flags which
options are selected. The polyml ebuild always had the X USE flag
to control the -with-x option.
Currently that means the X use flag is likely to be enabled on
desktop machines, and disabled on server machines.
Since you advise against it I'm wondering about removing it or
somehow disabling it.
I haven't used Gentoo so I don't know how the packaging works there. I
guess I was assuming that you were building binary packages in a similar
way to Debian/Ubuntu. If there is only a single Poly/ML package then
it's not a good idea to make it dependent on all the X-windows and Motif
libraries. I did read somewhere, though, that in Gentoo you build from
source. If that is true then enabling the X-Windows system is fine on
platforms that already have the X-Windows/Motif libraries and headers
present. Perhaps I should get the "check" option for --with-x to work
correctly so that it is possible to build in the X-Windows support if
everything is present but silently fall back to building without X if
something is missing. This is roughly the way GMP support is done.
I can help with the configure problem:
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/polyml/files/polyml-5.4.1-configure.patch?view=markup
I wish I'd been aware of this earlier; I could have fixed the configure
script before release.
Regards,
David
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