Should parrot_config report separate inst_ and build variables?

Andy Dougherty doughera at lafayette.edu
Fri May 1 15:48:10 UTC 2009


On Fri, 1 May 2009, Fran?ois Perrad wrote:

> 2009/4/30 Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com>:
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:27:01PM -0400, Will Coleda wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Andy Dougherty <doughera at lafayette.edu> wrote:
> >> > Is that the desired behavior?  Or, perhaps, should the installed version
> >> > of parrot_config *know* that it's the installed version and simply report
> >> > the inst_ version of variables?
> >>
> >> IMO, all the config keys should NOT have an install vs. a build
> >> variant. This way a language can just call "parrot_config", and be
> >> sure they're getting the right values.
> >
> > +2
> 
> I agree too.
> When I added inst_libparrot_ldflags, I don't found the best solution.

Well, it did have the important advantage of getting something to work 
that didn't work before.  So good job, and thank you.

-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera at lafayette.edu


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