Re: [Pmk-users] Environment variables with pmk

[Damien C. <mip...@us...>]

Hi Quentin,
well the first thing i must do is to warn you about pmk following unix 
standards as a goal. This is not the same playing field than autoconf.

I'm not aware about the gnustep environement so i can't tell you if pmk 
will help. I must admit that i'm a bit afraid when i read that GNUstep 
install don't rely on unix fs layout. Anyway, i think about looking at 
gnustep-make as soon as possible (this means not so soon because i'm 
really busy actually ;).

By the way, are your project's sources publicly available ? This could 
help a bit to see what is done in the source configure stage.

Now speaking about operating systems. I know a few about darwin but 
AFAIK it does not seem to be totally unix compliant so i cannot grant 
that we could resolve all your problem on this platform. I know much 
about OpenBSD which is my default OS.
The main pmk project should never have support windows as it is not a 
unix like system. Maybe one day, there will be a windows port that will 
handle specificities. But it's far from being a promise as i just don't 
care about it (this means i will not do the development).

By the way, reading the last part of your mail i wonder whether your had 
already looked what exactly pmk can do ?
Anyway, getting the environement variables should not be difficult as we 
already got some of them. I just need to think about how it will 
inter-operate with actual gathered data. But i still don't understand 
what is the problem with getting them from make :)

Damien