Installing Perl modules in @INC

2010-02-03 Thread Youssef Eldakar
I have a package that uses Perl modules that I would like installed in @INC, e.g., in /usr/share/perl5. Searching through the Automake list archives, the most relevant thread I was able to locate was: http://sourceware.org/ml/automake/2003-05/msg00069.html However, the solution suggested therein

Re: Creating a partial library

2010-02-03 Thread Andrew W. Nosenko
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 03:39, Justin Seyster jrs...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working on a support framework for plug-ins, and I'm struggling to come up with a way to compile it.  I'm leaning towards building it as a convenience library, but there a few SNAFUs. Each plug-in is itself a shared

Re: Creating a partial library

2010-02-03 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:33 AM, John Calcote john.calc...@gmail.com wrote: (PIC-based static only) library is to use the noinst prefix. But libtool can be used to manually install a convenience library, so you could use libtool to do this in an install-exec-local rule in the Makefile.am file

Re: Creating a partial library

2010-02-03 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Andrew W. Nosenko wrote: Therefore, the safest way is to link your framework into main process (and only into main process) and let the main process to provide these framework functions to the modules loaded by him. I find it convenient to have loadable modules depend on a

Re: silent installs

2010-02-03 Thread William Pursell
John Calcote wrote: On 1/29/2010 10:17 AM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Bob Friesenhahn Regarding silent installs: Why do passenger trains have windows? Why do passenger train windows have curtains? Okay - I can't help it! I bet the engineer's windows don't have

Re: How to handle data/script files in a VPATH build ?

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Johansson
Hello Sylvestre, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: In my Makefile.am, I have: all-local: macros macros: $(top_builddir)/bin/myscript $(top_builddir)/bin/myscript $(top_builddir)/dataDir/myData.sci Obviously, this works when I am building my application in the source tree but it fails when

Re: Creating a partial library

2010-02-03 Thread John Calcote
Steffan, On 2/3/2010 5:50 AM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:33 AM, John Calcotejohn.calc...@gmail.com wrote: (PIC-based static only) library is to use the noinst prefix. But libtool can be used to manually install a convenience library, so you could use libtool to do

RE: silent installs

2010-02-03 Thread William Tracy (wtracy)
Probably no curtains, but they do have windshield wiper to clear away the cruft. The light rail trolleys around where I live also have pull-down sun shades to protect the driver from glare. :-) /me will stop now --- William Tracy

Re: Creating a partial library

2010-02-03 Thread Justin Seyster
Thanks, this advice gives me exactly what I asked for (even if it turns out that's not what I really wanted :-). I agree entirely that putting the framework into the main program is a good solution, but I'm not involved with the main program's development, so that's not an option for me. Right

Re: Creating a partial library

2010-02-03 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Justin Seyster wrote: My hope is that this approach will protect users of the framework from the most possible hidden linking danger. Since 9/11, 'hope' is not sufficient protection in today's world. Not all systems are capable of producing a 'partial' library, leaving

Re: Installing Perl modules in @INC

2010-02-03 Thread Youssef Eldakar
I apologize for that unintentional reposting in my previous e-mail with this same subject. Youssef Eldakar Bibliotheca Alexandrina