Hi Massimiliano, On 13 Oct, 2013, at 22:29, Massimiliano Gubinelli <m.gubine...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've set up a complete developement environment in misc/tm-devel-mac with > packages for all the software needed by texmacs. There is a configure-tm file > which can be easily hacked to call configure with all the right paths and > dependencies once the environment is set up. I can have the control on the Qt > flags and have guile linked statically in the source. In any case system > libraries are a no opt if you are creating a bundle and you want it to be > robust. I will try it. > By similar reasons in my opinion this should be the way things have to be > done on Windows too. Isn't this more or less the case? Albeit less elegantly, because the whole development environment is a zip instead of scripts to download and compile oneself... > For Unix machines one should rely on system libraries so have two versions of > the same library installed should be considered not the common thing. Well, now that we are lagging almost 3 years behind the release of Guile 2, most users will have to install an older guile than the default one in the distro… but this is off the point. > An option of course can also be to change all the configure to allow for > exact paths of libraries but this will not solve the problem since you cannot > ensure that a library which you call uses another copy of a library which you > have linked in manually (for example think about guile and TeXmacs using > different copies of gmp or libz, etc…). Good point. I was actually thinking about changing the configure to do precisely that so I'm happy you told me this before. d'oh! > So I think the easiest way to have a complete control of libraries (on Mac > and Windows) is to recompile them locally with strict control of the building > environment. Seems so, yes (but it'd still be nice to have a functioning configure script, meaning one which actually uses the libraries it's told to. And any library may be bundled within the .app package…). Anyway, I'll try the tm-devel thing when I have time. You are quite right in everything you say and I appreciate the effort put into the tm-devel stuff. Cheers, -- Miguel. _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
