[Mono-devel-list] Bride of GAC

[Mike Kestner]

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 17:08, John Luke wrote:

> This is only necessary if compile time requires the full path, which is 
> what I am questioning, and it very well may be necesary.

Yes, you have to tell the compiler which assembly you are compiling
against.  Not just it's name, the physical assembly.  You don't want the
compiler randomly selecting "one with that name" for you, especially
when we get to multiple versions installed.  And adding version,
cultureinfo, and key subfields to a -r isn't any better than a path,
really.

> Otherwise the .pc files could just contain '-r:gtk-sharp' like they
> used to before 0.91.

At the very least, it would have to contain -r gtk-sharp -L
/path/to/its/dir.  This has really been required all along, although
most people didn't necessarily feel it since they had Gtk# installed in
the same prefix as mono, and we were just dumping unversioned assemblies
into prefix/lib.  We have to grow up now.  :-)

I think having a single -L path in the --libs output would look better
than having individual paths for each assembly.  I think we're going to
end up with some absurd looking mcs commands spitting out of make the
way we're headed.  But without symlinks or a duplicate assembly
installed in a shared place, we have to fully path to each individual
Gtk# assembly.

-- 
Mike Kestner <mkestner at ximian.com>