Re: [9fans] mkfile question: mklib & co.

["Sascha Retzki" <sretzki@gmx.de>]

> Good day.
> 
> Am Sat, 5 Aug 2006 10:34:10 +0200
> "Sascha Retzki" <sretzki@gmx.de> schrieb:
> 
>> got a question regarding /sys/src/cmd/mklib, why aren't HFILES copied to /$objtype/include?
>> 
>> I mean, the library itsself is copied to LIBDIR, \o/ , but the headerfiles are not copied. It would be great if mk can at least copy them.
> 
> Why does this need to be in the default mk file?
> 

Because those can then be used to not reinvent the wheel for 3rd-party library programmers. Currently, you either do:

> installheader:
> 	cp *.h /sys/include
> 

and then mention that target in your README ("who reads files named README?" ;) ).

or you rewrite half of mklib in your own mkfile.

> But beware that you need the rights to write there, so it is better to have
> $HOME/include and bind it before /sys/include, in your profile.
> 

Or HDIR:

install:
	cp $LIB $LIBDIR/
	for (i in $HFILES) {
		cp $HFILES $HDIR/
	}

I did that in every library I have written up to date (and I deleted every single one of them up to date, btw ;))

>> Something related: Does $objtype work in #pragma lib? If not, mk would have to put in #pragma lib to make library distribution a pleasure.
> 

I found out you don't actually have *any* path in there, just #pragma lib "libf00.a". It will just work(tm).

> You write the library, so you put it there.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Christoph