Re: [Chicken-users] Re: 4.6.7 development snapshot available

[Felix]

From: Aleksej Saushev <address@hidden>
Subject: [Chicken-users] Re: 4.6.7 development snapshot available
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:28:33 +0400

> Felix <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>>> Will there be release candidates too?
>>
>> I don't know - I thought the snapshots have more or less the
>> status of RCs. Ivan, what do you think?
>>
>>> I installed the snapshot and noticed a few things:
>>> 
>>> - The include files are now installed in PREFIX/include/chicken/*.h
>>>    This is probably important enough to be mentioned in NEWS
>>
>> Yes, that's true. This change was necessary to allow installing
>> multiple chickens with different PROGRAM_PREFIX/PROGRAM_SUFFIX
>> to be installed into the same PREFIX. Unfortunatly, depending
>> on include-path search order of the C compiler, this can cause
>> trouble if an old chicken.h is installed in the old location.
>> I will add this to the NEWS file.
> 
> Any thoughts about using pkg-config? Any similar solution?

We should try to avoid any dependency that's not absolutely
essential. Also, pkg-config help much on Windows.


cheers,
felix