Re: Modules and configure

WMP> For actual OS things that they would need to check for that XEmacs' WMP> config.h doesn't take care of... I can't see many other than AC_CHECK_LIB WMP> and testing for module-specific includes. But creating the makefiles, etc, WMP> etc, is definitely best left to the modules themselves. WMP> I've been meaning for well over a year to make the package system use WMP> autoconf, but have never found the time. :( Time.... One idea is that the module needs an XEmacs, and XEmacs already knows _everything_ about the system. And its configuration variables are available from lisp via config-value-hash-table. Perl does something similar with its modules. perl Makefile.PL make make install Note: no independent configure step. Just ask the perl executable.