[jira] Updated: (COUCHDB-1012) Utility to help plugin developers manage paths

["Randall Leeds (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1012?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Randall Leeds updated COUCHDB-1012:
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    Attachment: 0001-support-pkg-config-for-plugins-COUCHDB-1012.patch

Patch. I'm not super comfortable with autotools or conventions that may apply here, so please enlighten if you have feedback.

`pkg-config --libs couchdb` - the flags to pass to erl in order to add all the couchdb apps to your erlang code path (e.g. "/usr/local/lib/couchdb/erlang/lib")

`pkg-config --variable=libdir couchdb` - the raw directory, useful for installing your plugin where couch can find it. same as above but without the "-pa" switch.

`pkg-config --cflags couchdb` a -I/path/to/couchdb-1.x/include` - passed to erlc to find couch_db.hrl

> Utility to help plugin developers manage paths
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>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-1012
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1012
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Build System
>            Reporter: Randall Leeds
>         Attachments: 0001-support-pkg-config-for-plugins-COUCHDB-1012.patch
>
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> Developers may want to write plugins (like GeoCouch) for CouchDB. Many hooks in the configuration system allow loading arbitrary Erlang modules to handle various internal tasks, but currently there is no straightforward and portable way for developers of these plugins to discover the location of the CouchDB library files.
> Two options that have been proposed are to use pkg-config or install a separate script that could be invoked (e.g. as couch-config --erl-libs) to discover important CouchDB installation paths.
> As far as I know the loudest argument against pkg-config is lack of support for Windows.

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