On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 04:07:12PM +0100, Alastair Reid wrote:
I think we need to figure out the full story for people using CVS or distros.
I think the new setup is usable now; the only problem is that it hasn't had enough users thumping on it. So I'd suggest that for the upcoming release, both source and binary installations include both full sets of libraries, with a run-time choice between them (via -P), defaulting to the old setup. After the release the default could be switched, and the old libs eventually eliminated. It doesn't seem worth it to maintain parallel libraries for a long period. So for now the story would be something like: cvs checkout hugs98 fpconfig cd fptools cvs checkout hslibs libraries cd ../hugs98/src/unix ./convert_hslibs ../../../fptools ./convert_libraries ../../../fptools # this would be the source distro ./configure cd .. make install[_ffi] # installs both lib and libraries # this would be the binary distro hugs # gets the old libs HUGSFLAGS='-P{Hugs}/libraries:{Hugs}/oldlib:{Hugs}/lib/hugs' export HUGSFLAGS hugs # gets the new setup Maybe including the ffi stuff should be a configure option.