SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Subdirectory - pkginfo/MANIFEST.${PACKAGE} looks good. Why not just use autoconf? For the packages as well as the info stuff? This would remove the need for GNU make, and is similar to how everything else works. I've already got all the stuff built for doing various info generating stuff in autoconf (HTML, DVI, makeinfo, info from Emacs/XEmacs). It would not be hard to hack something together to deal with all exisiting subdirectories when doing recursion instead of just having them in the configure file directly. People should be able to build packages without external dependencies, same way they can build XEmacs with non-GNU make and compilers, etc, etc. I'd like to see them be able to do: cd /emacs/xemacs/package-source ./configure --with-emacs=/usr/local/bin/xemacs make Look familiar? :) -Bill P.