Re: error when installing io package

[Olaf Till]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:14:49AM -0600, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 01/15/2015 11:07 AM, Carnë Draug wrote:
> 
> >I understand why the different directories for the two types of files, I
> >don't think the problem lies there.  Another solution could be to allow two
> >different PKG_ADD packages per package, one for oct files and another for
> >m files (but then what happens when the each directory is dependent on the
> >other?).
> 
> Couldn't the PKG_ADD file check to see whether the dependent
> directory is in the load path (or functions that it will call are
> available) and it not add the dependent directory before proceeding?
> 
> Or, is it possible to just do all of the real work in one PKG_ADD
> file and the other would just load the dependent directory if
> needed?  That might meed custom creation of the PKG_ADD files
> instead of generating from PKG_ADD directives in the sources as I
> think we do now.  Or it might require some modification of the
> current scheme of generating them.
> 
> jwe

I'm not sure to understand your problem correctly, but at first glance
it seems to be the same as I once made a patch against, which was
never applied:

http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7976

Olaf

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