[m-dev.] diff: make cgi/html extras a library

[Tyson Dowd]

On 24-Mar-2000, Warwick Harvey <wharvey at cs.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> You don't want to add:
> 
> 	INSTALL_PREFIX := $(INSTALL_PREFIX)/extras
> 
> 	install: libmercury_www.install
> 
> (or similar)?
> 
> :-)
> 
> Warwick
> (Don't worry, I'm leaving the country on Wednesday, so you'll be free of me
> after that... ;-)

Well, Warwick isn't going to reply to this one, but I have thought
about it.

One of the problems with this approach is that the install system
currently assumes that your installed libraries are installed using
the default LIBGRADES.  I often install with a very limited LIBGRADES.
The install fails horribly if you do that.

To that end, I've been hacking a little on a mercury-config script, 
that can tell you the right paths to install things, the correct
value of LIBGRADES, how to link with various libraries, that kind of
thing.  This is basically a little registry of information on Mercury
libraries so that it is possible to write make rules that work
reliably (and to write configure scripts that test for various things).

So I will work a little more on this and then modify a few of the
extras libraries to use it to install correctly.

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       Tyson Dowd           # 
                            #  Surreal humour isn't eveyone's cup of fur.
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