Re: msgpack-git upgrade question

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 09:23:51PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> Sorry, notwithstanding above thread, if I check the tarballs, say the
> following two, I find the make files to be completely different each
> having only the respective (C or C++) targets.
> 
> https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/archive/refs/tags/cpp-6.1.1.tar.gz
> https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/archive/refs/tags/c-6.1.0.tar.gz
> 
> I tried building the cpp version and it results in only headers and no
> library (this conforms with the project home page that says c++ version is
> header-only).
> 
> Wonder if the previous suggestion of creating c-msgpack and cpp-msgpack
> should be considered. Code base might be a superset, but make files are
> different depending on the tag.

Sure, you can go that way.

But make sure that the c++ version doesn't install the C headers, so
both can be installed at the same time.
 Thomas