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Re: build-guile [fwd: g-wrap-0.3.9 configure problem]


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On Mon, 11 May 1998, Andrew Archibald wrote:

> To: mdj@nada.kth.se
> Subject: Re: build-guile [fwd: g-wrap-0.3.9 configure problem]
> From: Andrew Archibald <aarchiba@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
> 
> 
> ; As it is now, however, the most bug-free version of Guile hitherto was
> ; probably the snapshot before last night.
> ; 
> ; The coming days, we'll hopefully see some deterioration of stability,
> ; tho.  >-)
> 
> This is progress.  Isn't CS great? :).
> 
> ; > As I understand it, a debian package is designed to make the
> ; > software easy to install --- i.e., not intended for developers.
> ; 
> ; Maybe it would be possible to have two debian packages?  One for the
> ; peasants and one for the brave?
> 
> 
> I guess my point was that the brave don't mind 
> 
> # (aclocal && automake && autoconf && ./configure && make && 
> make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/guile-core-19980424 && 
> cd /usr/local/stow && stow guile-core-19980424) > error_log
> 
> and you won't have to worry about peasants who think they're brave but
> aren't if you don't make an unstable debian package. 
> 
> (BTW, does automake generate make -j compatible makefiles?)

Yes, it does - just tried it out with libgtop - it even runs most of the
'sysdeps' subdirectories in parallel:

	./src
	./src/server
	./support
	./sysdeps
	./sysdeps/common
	./sysdeps/guile
	./sysdeps/guile/names
	./sysdeps/linux
	./sysdeps/names
	./sysdeps/osf1
	./sysdeps/stub
	./sysdeps/sun4

> 
> Andrew
> aarchiba@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
> 

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