[Pkg-silc-devel] Updating SILC Toolkit to 1.1 beta 4

[stesie at brokenpipe.de]

Hi,

On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 08:58:55PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 05:56:52PM +0200, stesie at brokenpipe.de wrote:
> > in debian/rules we used to configure with
> > 	
> > 	--with-simdir=\$${libdir}/silc/${name}
> >     and
> >         --includedir=\$${prefix}/include/silc/${name}
> > 
> > however ${name} wasn't initialized.  You dropped the ${name} today.
> 
> In my quest for simplicity.  I have done so because libsilc was
> conflicting with any other libsilc version.
> 
> The headers are only installed in the libsilc-n.n-n-dev package.  If we
> choose to go the usual way (only one -dev package at a time), I would
> prefer to keep the headers in /usr/include/silc.

ooh, sure, I confused myself.  The headers can of course stay in
/usr/include/silc, and in the -dev package ...

> > Therefore the crypto modules are installed to /usr/lib/silc, not
> > /usr/lib/silc/libsilc-1.1-1 as it probably was (long) before.  At least
> > that's the impression I get from the debian/rules file.
> > 
> > I wonder whether we should reenable this behaviour again, to be able to
> > install different libsilc versions (not -dev) in parallel. 
> 
> This might be a desirable goal.  I can see two cases where it's
> particularily interesting:
>  * SILC gets really popular and we don't have every packages under our
>    control;
>  * libsilc gets a drastic change in a future version, and we need to do
>    a smooth transition.
> 
> > What about initializing name like this:
> > ,-- 
> > | name=$(shell awk '/Package/ && !/dev/ { print $2 }' control)
> > `--
> > 
> > and modifying the pkg-config files accordingly?
> 
> Why should pkg-config files be modified?  (I have little knowledge of
> pkg-config, and from my understanding, the are currently generated from
> ./configure script.)

like above, we shouldn't install more than one version of headers,
therefore they can stay in /usr/include/silc and the pkg-config file
needn't be changed ...

therefore it's only about different sim directories ...

cheers,
  stesie


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