Re: [wxhaskell-users] Re: [Haskell] Announce: wxHaskell 0.6

[Matthew W. <ma...@al...>]

Daan Leijen wrote:
> I can't guarantee it as I haven't tested myself on gentoo, but I believe 
> that wxhaskell has
> no compile-time encoded paths in its generated libraries. During linking 
> I use "--soname"
> to remove the directory part -- relying on the linker to find it (using 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH for
> example, or by putting it in the same directory as the executable, or ...)

I'm not very big on the mysteries of linking and shared libraries and 
other such magic. I guess we could just try it and see :-)

>> A common solution is an install target allowing specification of a 
>> target directory to be used instead
> 
> 
> Good idea, maybe I'll make that an extra option if that proves useful 
> for gentoo unix.
> Andres Loh is using Gentoo and he works just across my office so it 
> would be relatively
> painless to do some testing :-)

:-)

>> I may be wrong, but I believe the GNU autotools make this kind of 
>> thing quite easy to do these days.
> 
> 
> I guess that is right, but the autotools gave me too much trouble to
> work across platforms (unix,win98,winXP,macOSX) and I dropped back to
> hand-written config/make -- and now that it is done, there is not much
> incentive anymore to do otherwise :-)

Indeed. I personally dislike the autotools intensely, but sometimes 
they're the best available option. Clearly I think that indicates we 
need a new option.

Thanks. Sorry if I'm coming over a bit abrupt, I'm writing these e-mails 
during compiles at work.