Re: [Help-smalltalk] GNU Smalltalk on Debian 3.1?

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 17:29 -0800, Brett Cundal wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:09:03PM +0000, David Given wrote:
> > Does anyone know what's happened to the Debian packages for GNU Smalltalk? 
> > There certainly *used* to be packages (because I used them), but they seem 
> > to 
> > have vanished.
> > 
> 
> I'm working on a 2.1 package that is mostly ready... Now that the arch
> build requirements for testing have been relaxed, it may actually get
> into testing.
> 
> I had a quick stab at packaging 2.2, and it looks like it will require
> a ton of work (it will require -lib/-dev packages to be built)...

Surely we can skip those in the first instance: theres no requirement to
install all the headers and stati libraries, we can choose to just
install:
 * the library
 * the modules
 * the *.st files
 * gst itself

and strip
 * *.h
 * *.la
 * *.a
 

- sure the library wont be usable by other packages immediately, but
we'd get to find out about build problems, and perhaps look at how we
can build a gnu-smalltalk-gtk ( using blox-gtk) version for folk that
want that (I do) as as as gnu-smalltalk-tk for the tk folk, without
doing a full rebuild. 

Perhaps Paolo will have some ideas on that.

Rob

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