[Fedora-packaging] Packaging guidelines for Emacsen add-on packages

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 31/05/07, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
> Bad, as explained before.  Instead, how about adding some pkgconfig files
> which are generated during build and thus we have complete control over their
> contents?  Eg. the attached one to xemacs-devel:
>
> $ pkg-config xemacs --modversion
> 21.5.28
> $ pkg-config xemacs --variable=sitestartdir
> /usr/share/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/site-start.d
> $ pkg-config xemacs --variable=sitepkglispdir
> /usr/share/xemacs/site-packages/lisp
> $ pkg-config xemacs --variable=sitemoduledir
> /usr/lib64/xemacs/site-modules
> $ pkg-config xemacs --cflags
> -I/usr/lib64/xemacs-21.5-b28/x86_64-redhat-linux/include

Perfect! That also allows package build time discovery of the
site-lisp directories etc.

I wonder if Chip would be willing to add such a thing to GNU Emacs package.

J.