timo.my...@bittivirhe.fi (Timo Myyrä) writes:
> 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 = v0.13
>
> Ok, 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... and a another fix for the build: - install src dir contents to fix the TAGS file, its pretty useless without the sources. - patch shell scripts to be more portable so bash shell is no longer needed timo
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