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

[Gour <go...@ma...>]

Daan Leijen (daa...@xs...) 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 ...)

As I recall, (without using addwrite /usr/lib), the problem with just patching
LIBDIR was that the package.conf file was messed up and after installation
libraries could not be find when I tried some samples.

However, I'm still green with the Haskell and ghc architecture, so I left
things for the (better) future.

otoh, wxhaskell is in a speed and my whxaskell build is still v0.3 :-(

> 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 :-)
> 
> Thanks for the feedback, -- Daan.

Thank you for your presence. I can try next thing to write a new ebuild and do
some testing.

> 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 :-)

I understand you. Let's come together and write a decent Gentoo wxhaskell ebuild
 which can be submitted for inclusion!

Sincerely,
Gour

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