Re: Modules and configure

SY> * "Jerry" == Jerry James <james(a)eecs.ukans.edu&gt; writes: Jerry> I am working on adding ViaVoice support to XEmacs as a module. I need Jerry> to find the ViaVoice libraries, with configure. How should this be Jerry> handled? Should I have a configure script in the module directory? If Jerry> so, will the include of config.h via emodules.h still pick up the right Jerry> config.h? Or should I ask to have the main configure script add Jerry> ViaVoice detection once the module is ready? 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? That is the "architecturally correct" way to do it. But in practice it's probably reasonable to add a hack to our configure.in so that an external package doesn't have to maintain one.