Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> writes:
> On 2018/09/24 15:22, Timo Myyrä wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is an port for Gerbil Scheme. Its an scheme implementation focusing on
>> systems programming. Think minimal version of Racket in pure Scheme. It
>> builds
>> on top of Gambit scheme.
>>
>> The installation is bit odd that it expects everything to be in single
>> destination directory. I copied the lang/go method to installing it to
>> /usr/local/gerbil. I've added README into the port to notify users about
>> setting
>> GERBIL_HOME and PATH so Gerbil will work.
>
> README should follow the layout in
> /usr/ports/infrastructure/templates/README.template,
> and has hardcoded /usr/local that should be replaced with ${PREFIX}.
>
>> I tried to add symlinks under /usr/local/bin but that didn't work as rest of
>> the
>> code seems to assume libraries are found relative to the bin directory.
>
> That's a bit unfriendly :( Are there any other packagers on other OS that
> have already fixed that whose work could be borrowed?
>
>> I've enabled some optional parts in Gerbil with patching, should these be
>> made
>> into flavors and keep smaller 'core' version or this fine as it is?
>
> I'd skip that initially. It could be added later if there's demand.
>
> This ..
>
> VERSION = 0.13
> DISTNAME = gerbil-${VERSION}
>
> GH_ACCOUNT = vyzo
> GH_PROJECT = gerbil
> GH_TAGNAME = v${VERSION}
>
> Can just be replaced with
>
> GH_ACCOUNT = vyzo
> GH_PROJECT = gerbil
> GH_TAGNAME = v0.13Ok, a bit tuned up version. - Fixed the README - Used the GERBIL_ROOT in Makefile - fixed GH_* tags in Makefile - Removed non-default dependencies except libxml, I intent to use Gerbil to parse XML data so I need it. I looked a bit but couldn't find other packages for Gerbil than one in Arch: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=gerbil-scheme-git It uses same method except install it int /opt/gerbil-git. Timo
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