Re: Modules and configure

SY> * "Martin" == Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: >> SY> Does it even need to be in the core distribution at all? I don't mean SY> that I don't think XEmacs needs ViaVoice support. What I'm saying is, SY> why can't you package your ViaVoice module separately from the core, SY> with its own configure/build process? Martin> That is the "architecturally correct" way to do it. But in practice Martin> it's probably reasonable to add a hack to our configure.in so that an Martin> external package doesn't have to maintain one. SY> I must be missing something here, how does that make any sense? SY> Wouldn't that restrict the package to being only distributed with SY> XEmacs, or at least only able to build the package when you build SY> XEmacs itself? You build and install XEmacs. Then you build and install the module, using the installed XEmacs. Again, the perl example cd libnet-1.703; perl Makefile.PL; make; make install is the model. The module gets all of its configuration info from perl.