Re: Guile support in GNU make

Boris Kolpackov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.devel
Organization Code Synthesis Tools CC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Paul,

Paul D. Smith <[email protected]> writes:

> However, it would really only be useful to people shipping binary
> versions of make: to build from source you'd still need the Guile
> development package installed if you wanted Guile support.  It would,
> though, enable packagers to ship GNU make binary packages with Guile
> enabled, but without depending on the Guile library packages.

In my experience, "packagers" really dislike when a program insists
on static linking (or worse includes another module's source code
verbatim) since that inflates the size of the distribution.

Boris

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