Martin Gasbichler <gasbichl@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> Michel Schinz <Michel.Schinz@epfl.ch> writes:
[...]
>> As far as I'm concerned, I have a patch for Makefile.in so that the
>> above sequence of commands work, and I could modify my Fink package to
>> apply this patch before compiling. But it will only solve the problem
>> for the Fink package, so it would be cleaner to do a new release of
>> scsh to solve that issue. But maybe the people in charge of the
>> distribution feel this is not required, I don't know.
>
> I'm not sure I understand you correctly: Are you already happy with
> the current version of the r0-6-stable branch in CVS?
I think so, yes, because it includes Andreas Voegele's patch, which
apparently does what I want. I cannot test it right now since
SourceForge's CVS server is down, but just by looking at it I would
say yes.
What is really needed is a way to install scsh in a temporary
(staging) directory and then move the contents of that directory to a
final location. With Voegele's patch this looks doable by passing the
final directory name to "configure" (as --prefix) and the staging
directory name to "make install" (as DESTDIR).
[...]
> On the other hand 0.6.4 has been out for about five months now so we
> could show some activity. One outstanding bug I see is Peter Wang's
> fix for compiling regular expressions. Mike promised to take a look
> at a little while ago, but Peter's fix looks pretty obvious so I
> might just commit it. I would also like to make the scsh library
> path configurable at compilation time. If there is demand for a new
> release, I can prepare it within a week or so.
Ok, I would say that there is some demand, since at least the Debian
and Fink users who have problems using pp.scm would be happy to have a
fix. OTOH, I don't want to annoy you with that, as I said I can at
least work around the problem with a patch for now.
Thanks,
Michel.
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