[Scons-users] pkg-config support

[Bill Deegan]

so does pkg-config spit out D specific flags now?
Perhaps you can paste an example?

Or are you talking about munging pkg-config's output to "do the right
thing" for D compilation (and Fortran)?

-Bill

On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 7:53 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 2018-08-04 at 12:38 -0700, Bill Deegan wrote:
> > Yes!
> > Improving pkg-config support would be most welcome!
> >
>
> Sounds like that's a yes. :-)
>
> The current system based on using backtick and MergeFlags (which then
> uses ParseFlags) of ParseConfig fundamentally assumes all code is
> either C or C++. I am not sure this will work for Fortran, but for D
> this isn't going to work because mixed D and C code projects cannot use
> just one set of environment variables (*). Further, ParseFlags and
> MergeFlags are used throughout environment handling – it is not
> entirely clear to me just yet that they actually do the right thing for
> Fortran and D because ParseFlags is so focussed on C and C++ options.
>
> I am currently thinking that using the ParseConfig route for handling
> PkgConfig is possible the wrong way forward. Binding Fortran and D into
> the system will end up as a Very Big Task™ and will almost certainly
> lead to the real mess of the smart linker stuff. Leaving current stuff
> as it is and making a tool seems like the best way forward, even if
> later it is decided to merge things in. This militates in favour of
> forking Manuel Naranjo's or starting again from scratch with a tool
> that works for all languages, not just C, C++, Fortran and D.
>
> I am wondering though, if doing it totally separate is the wrong thing
> to do. Perhaps having a "dependency injection" approach is the right
> thing to do. Some infrastructure is provided that language tools can
> then make use of to provide pkg-config processing capability. This
> though mitigates against a standalone tool.
>
> Whilst I am current in a "I can get the final vision" position and
> would usually implement something to get started, I am hesitant to as
> there are three totally different directions and starting down one
> might adversely affect doing the right thing.
>
>
> (*) Actually this is a belief statement. I assumed the original D tools
> used separate environment variables because it was necessary, and
> haven't really tested the assumption.
>
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